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COPYRIGHT, 1921 

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COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING CO. 

PARSONS, KANSAS 



DEC 2? !92l 



)ITED AND COMPILED PRINTED 

By By 

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KANSAS CITY. MO. PARSONS. KANSAS 

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OUR HEROES 



An Illustrated Historical Biogra- 
phy Compiled from Private 
and Public Authentic 
Records. 



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The World War — American Participation 

— Labette County Personnel of Military 

and Naval Activity, the Labette 

County Chapter American 
Red Cross and Other 

Participants. 



W. H. L. — 1921 



FOREWORD 



WAR in the abstract is a fearsome thing. War with our 
own boys, instead of being a fearsome thing, becomes an 
inspiration. Such was the war for democracy that has been 
waged by our own United States of America against the Ger- 
man autocracy. 

That Labette County, Kansas, should hold a front rank in 
the part played is but natural. The very air of this locality 
breathes patriotism and love of country. It is not only of the 
boys who so loyally entered the service of their country, but 
mothers, sisters, wives, sweethearts, grandmothers and chil- 
dren as well as our patriotic men who could not enter the 
military or naval ranks. They, each and every one, did their 
bit in some way to the successful and glorious victory against 
the terrorism and barbarism of German Kulter. 

When we search the record of our state and nation, and 
compare Labette County's record we are proud of our boys, 
our women folk, our children and our men — Labette County 
has never been found wanting. 

In presenting this book to the people of the country the 
publishers have attempted in some small measure to bring 
before them in compact form, an all too brief story of their 
own community, coupled with illustrations and a pictorial 
history of some of our patriots who have pledged their all 
their very lives that Liberty may live and Right may Triumph. 

Within the covers of this book we have attempted to set 
forth what Labette County and her people typify. (Personal 
details and records of individual acts of patriotism is lacking 
because of the removal from this locality of many who partici- 
pated in the world struggle.) 

It we have succeeded the success is due not to us, not to 
the typographer who prepared this book, but to the mothers 
and fathers who raised these sons, for the highest and greatest 
service to Humanity and to their individual efforts in backing 
them at home. 

THE Pt'RLISHERS. 



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SERVICE RECORD 

OF 



Name in Full 

who entered the of the 

UNITED STATES 

on the day of 1!) 

at the age of years ..months (lays and 

while living at 



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Street 



Town 



County- 



State 



with his 

Received first training at 

Located at 

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Names of Parents, Relatives or Friends 
Name of Camp 



Town 



Rank 

Transferred for further training to 



State 

in Co Regiment Division 

Letter No. Camp 



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Upon finishing training was assigned to. 



Branch of Service 



Company or Ship 



Division or Fleet Otherwise Assigned 

Under the following Commanding Officers: 



Regiment or Squadron 
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Names and addresses of three friends in the service: 



Happiest moments during the term of service: 



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DEDICATION 



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O the memor^ of the Labette 
County Heroes v?ho paid the su- 
preme sacrifice during the World 
War, 1Q17-1918, this Volume is 
affectionately dedicated. 

Ma;9 God make us vJortrr? of vjhat 
the)) ga\>e to us. And ma^ vi>e 
see the courage, the unselfish fi- 
delity, and the patriotic demotion, 
v^hich led them unafraid as billing 
sacrifices to fhe cause of human 
advancement. 

— W. H. LIGHTFOOT 



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ALLEN. CLIFFORD JAMES 
BARRON. LAWRENCE PERCY 
BARTON. JOHN HENRY 
BAXTER. CARL WILLIAM 
BERENTZ. BRYAN ARTHUR 
BERRY', OSCAR ROLAND 
BISHOP. RAYMOND PARRIS 
BLAICH. FRED WILLIAM 
BLEVINS. OTIS 
BROWN, JOHN CARL 
BRYANT, ROY' DAVIS 
BURREL. HERBERT 
BURRIS. CURTIS ELDER 
CANFIELD, ALBA 
CARPENTER, ALFRED BAKER 
CASHMAN, KENNETH M. 
CHANDLER, HAROLD L. 
CHANSLER. ARTHUR J. 
COX. SAMUEL 
CRANE. WILFRED W. 
DEE, PAUL 
DIXON, DOUGLAS J. 
DONALDSON, HARRY LEROY' 
DORCAS. ALFRED 
DUKF. JAMES E. 
FOWLER. HARRY 
FOWLLR. JOHN WILLIAM 
GARDNER, CLYDE D. 
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GIAGER. FRED 
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GOODRICH, ROY C. 
GRASS. WILFRED W. 
GROSS. REV. R. C. 
HALE, RAY 
HALL, ALBERT 
IlILLEGOS. CLIFFORD A. 
HOBSON. JAMES ARTHUR 
HUGHES. EDWARD J. 
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JORDON. MELVILLE 
KALE, ROY- 
KECK. ALFRED ANDREW 
LAMBERT, LEROY' P. 
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LAWLER. WILLIAM LEE 
LINDSTROM, WALTER RAY 
McCREARY. FDMUND 
McCLAIN, DAVID W. 
McCLAIN, JAMES TALMAGE 
McCLAIN. ROBERT LEE 
McMURRY. ELLIS RAY 
MATTINGLY, CLOVIS 
MILLICAN. EARL CROCKETT 
MOLLENHOUR. GEORGE EARL 
NICHOLS. JOHN N. 
NORRIS, ROY 
PEARSON. ARTHUR J 
QUINN, EDWARD J. 
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STARTZ. JOSEPH CLARENCE 
STEEBY. CARL HENRY 
STEWART, EUGENE REGNIFR 
STICE, HARRY F. 
STRICKLAND, JOSFPH LEROY 
TEMPLETON, FRED 
TOWNSEND, EDEN L. 
UMPHENOUR. CHESTER G. 
WADE. MARK W. 
WADSACK, RAY 
WELCH. ROSS CONKLIN 
WENDELL. JOHN PHILLIP 
WILLISON. WARREN HENRY 
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WOODROW WILSON 
War President of the United States. 



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GENERAL .1. .1. PERSHING 
Coi ander-in-Chief American Forces in France. 



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olbp {hrrsftrut's Mar iHrssagr 

Delivered before Congress, April 2, 11)17. 

I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices 
of policy to be made and made immediately, which it was neither right or constitutionally permissible that 
I should assume the responsibility of making. 

On the third of February last, I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the 
Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put 
aside all restraint of law or of humanity and use submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach 
either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports con- 
trolled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterraen. 

That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfa-e earlier in the war ; but since 
April of last year the Imperial Government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its underseas craft 
in confomrity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk, and that due 
warning would be given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance 
was offered or escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save 
their lives in their open boats. 

The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance 
after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was 
observed. 

The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their 
character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without 
warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board — the vessels of friendly neutrals, along 
\\ tth belligeran's. 

Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken peoples of Belgium, 
though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Govern- 
ment itself, and weie distinguished by ur mistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same 
reckless lack of compassion or of principle. 

I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact be done by any government 
that heretofore had subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations. 

International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected 
and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right to dominion and where lay the free highways 
of the world. 

By pianful stage after stage has that law been built up. with meager enough results, indeed, after 
all was accomplished that could he accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the 
heart and conscience of mankind dtmanded. 

This minimum of rights the German Government has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and 
necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these, which it is impossible to 
employ as it is employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or of respect for 
the understandings that were supposed to underlie the intercourse of the world. 

I am not now thinking of the loss of property invohed, immense and serious as that is, but only of the 
wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in 
pursuits which have been always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent 
and legitimate. 

Property can be paid for, the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be. 

The present German sulmarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a 
war against all nations. 

American ships have been sunk. American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very 
deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and 
overwhelmed in the wateis in the same way. There has been no discrimination. 

The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. 

The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateiuss i.f 
judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. "We must put excited feelings away. 

Our motive will not be revenue or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but 
only the vindication of right— of which we are only a single champion. 




MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCI I 
Commander-in-Chief of Allies. 



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When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last I thought it would suffice to 
assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to 
keep our people safe against unlawful violence. 

But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines in effect are outlaws 
when used as the German submarines have been used against merchant shipping. It is impossible to 
defend ships against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend 
themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon the open sea. 

It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy them 
before they have shown their own intention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all. 

The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the 
sea which it has prescribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before 
questioned their right to defend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have placed 
on our merchant ships will be as beyond the pale of law and subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. 
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best ; in such circumstances and in the face of such pretentions 
it is worse than ineffectual ; it is likely only to produce what it was meant to prevent : it is practically 
certain to draw us into the war without either the rights or the effectiveness of the belligerents. 

There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: we will not choose the path of 
submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The 
wrongs against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs: they cut to the very roots of 
human life. 

With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking, and of 
the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional 
duty, I advise that the Congress declare that the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be 
in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States : that it formally 
accept the status of beligerent which has thus been thrust upon it: and that it take immediate steps not 
only to put the country into a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ 
all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war. 

What this will involve is clear. It will involve the utmost practicable cooperation in counsel and 
action with the governments now at war with Germany, and. as incident to that, the extension to those 
governments of the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may. so far as possible, be 
added to theirs. It will involve the organisation and mobilization of all the material sources of the 
country to supply the materials of the Nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and 
efficient v> ay possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all respects, but 
particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the enemy's submarines. It will involve 
the immediate addition to the armed forces of the United States already provided by law in case of war 
at least Ave hundred thousand men. who should, in my opinion be chosen upon the principle of universal 
liability to service, and also the authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon as 
they may be needed and can be handled in training. 

It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the Government, sustained, I hope 
>o far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well conceived taxation. I say 
sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation, because it seems to me that it would be most unwise 
to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on borrowed money. It is our duty, I most 
respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils 
which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by huge loans. 

In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished we should keep constantlv 
in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of 
our own military forces with the duty— for it will be a very practical duty— of supplying the nations 
already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. 
They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effective there. 

I shall take the liberty of suggesting through the several executive departments of the Government, 
for the consideration of your committees, measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have men- 
tioned I hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed after very careful 
thought by the branch of the Government upon which the responsibility of conducting the war and safe- 
guarding the Nation will most directly fall. 

While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very 
clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from 
its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not beheve that 
the thought of the Nation has been altered or clouded by them. 

I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the Congress 
on the third of February and on the twenty-sixth of February. 

Our object now. as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the 
world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed 
peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of 

those principles. . 

Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the 




FIELD MARSHAL SIB DOUGLAS HAIG 
Commander-in-Chief British Forces. 



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freedom of its people. And the menace of that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic 
governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their 
people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. 

We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct 
and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are 
observed among the individual citizens of civilized states. 

We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy 
and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It 
was not with their previous knowledge or approval. 

It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old. unhappy days when 
peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers, and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of 
dynasties, or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellowmen as pawns 
and tools. 

Self governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to 
bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make 
conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one has the right 
to ask questions. 

Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to 
generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the 
carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public 
opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the Nation's affairs. 

A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic 
nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It 
must be a league or honor, a partnership of opinion. 

Intrigue would eat its vitals away ; the plotting of inner circles who could plan what they would 
and render account to no one would be a corruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold 
their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow 
interests of their own. 

Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of 
the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in 
Russia? 

Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart, in 
all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural 
instincts, their habitual attitude toward life. 

The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it has stood and terrible 
as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has 
been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their native majesty and 
might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit 
partner for a league of honor. 

One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could 
never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting com- 
munities, and even our offices of government, with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afloat 
against our national unity of council, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce. 

Indeed, it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war began : and it unhappily is 
not a matter of conjecture, but a fact proved in our courts of justice, that the intrigues which have more 
than once come periously near to distrubing the peace and dislocating the industries of the country have 
been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of official 
agents of the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States. 

Even in checking these things and trying to extirpate them we have sought to put the most generous 
interpretation possible upon them because we knew that their course lay. not in any hostile feeling or 
purpose of the German people toward us (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves were), 
but only in the selfish designs of a government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. 
But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that government entertains no real 
friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. That it means 
to stir up enemies against us at our very doors, the intercepted note to the German minister at Mexico 
City is eloquent evidence. 

We are accepting this challenge of hostile puipose because we l.now that in such a government, 
following such methods, we can never have a friend: and that in the presence of its organized power, 
always lying in wait to accomplish, we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the 
democratic governments of the world. 

We are now about to accept guage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if neces- 
sary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and to nullify its pretensions and its power. We 
are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate 
peace of the world, and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of 
nations great and small and the privileges of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of 




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Commander-in-Chief Italian Forces. 



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obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested 
foundations of political liberty. 

We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion, we seek no indemnities for 
ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the 
champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure 
as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them. 

Just because we fight without rancor, without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but what 
we wish to share with all free peoples, we shall, 1 feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents 
without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principles of right and of fair play we 
profess to be fighting for. 

I have said nothing of the governments allied with the Imperial Government of Germany because 
they have not made war upon us or challenged us to defend our right and our honor. The Austro- 
Hungarian Government has, indeed, avowed its unqualified indorsement and acceptance of the reckless 
and lawless submarine warfare adopted now without disguise by the Imperial German Government, and it 
has therefore not been possible for this Government to receive Count Tarnowski, the Ambassador recently 
accredited to this Government by the Imperial and Royal Government of Austro-Hungary. but that gov- 
ernment has not actually engaged in warfare against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take 
the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at 
Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other means 
of defending our rights. 

It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and 
fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity toward a people nor with the desire to bring any 
injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which 
has thrown aside all consideration of humanity and of right and is running amuck. 

We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so 
much as the early re- establishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between us — however hard 
it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne 
with their present government through all these bitter months because of that friendship, exercising a 
patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been impossible. We shall, happily, still have an 
opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and 
women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be 
proud to prove it toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the government in the hour 
of test. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other 
fealty or allegiance. 

They will te prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who may be of a 
different mind and purpose. 

If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression ; but, if it 
lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and 
malignant few. 

It is a distressing and oppressive duty. Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus 
addressing you. There are. it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a 
fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, 
civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we 
shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy, for the right 
of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of 
small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace 
and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. 

To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything 
that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to 
spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which 
she has treasured. 

God helping her, she can do no other. 

WOODROW WILSON. 



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ARTHUR CAPPER 

War Governor of Kansas. 



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Arthur Capper, War Governor of Kansas. 

Every loyal Kansan is proud of the record Kansas made in the Great War. He 
has reason to be. Kansas responded promptly to every call for men, for money, 
for food and other supplies. 

Her sons were among the first to volunteer by the thousands. The later 
thousands who swelled the ranks of the national army went cheerfully, gladly, 
proudly, filled with the same patriotism that inspired those who went before. 

And while they fought and sacrificed and died in France to stay the aggression 
of Prussianism and save the world to civilization, their fathers, mothers, sisters 
and sweethearts toiled ami saved and gave until it hurt. 

It is not my purpose to try and tell what the Kansas boys did in 
France. That is history. Their deeds are immortal. Thev offered their lives for 
their country. They did their duty courageously, patriotically, unfalteringly. Their 
soul is the soul of Kansas and the nation. Their sacrifice is the glory of mankind. 
Words cannot do them justice, nor monuments, nor memorials. We who are left 
can only attempt to perpetuate their ideals. 

But while her loyal sons were fighting and dying for their country, those who 
remained at home were living and working and saving for the same country. 
Kansas, as a state, was in the forefront of home activities that made it possible for 
the boys abroad to break down the morale of the Huns and finally crush tnose 
enemies of mankind. 

Kansas went over the top in every drive. She accomplished what was declared 
impossible in producing foodstuffs. She furnished money and provisions for the 
boys at the front and did her share for the helpless victims of a world gone mad. 

Even before war was declared Kansas caught the vision of service that was to 
be required. The first state council of defense in the nation met in the governor's 
office at Topeka a month before the nation entered the the conflict. Kansas buckled 
on her armor at the next formal meeting on April 17 and outlined a program so com- 
prehensive and practicable that it afterwards was adopted, with few modifications, 
in the organization of the National Council of Defense and served as a model for 
the organization of other state councils. 

The State Council of Defense was organized on the principle that every man, 
woman and child could and would do his and her full share toward winning the 
war. They did. What work was done, how it was done, and who led in the doing, 
it is related in more detail in the reports of the different officers and committees. 

The spirit of self-sacrifice and loyalty that dominated the work of the State 
Council of Defense permeated the entire citizenry of Kansas. I came in touch with 
it day after day, week after week, thru the weary months of the war. It was 
evident in every city and town, in every community, on the lonely farms and in 
the depths of the mines, in every home, and I believe in every heart and mind and 
soul in the state. It was a period of anxiety and grief, of trouble and travail, of 
heartaches and sleepless nights, but so far as I could discover from the governor's 
chair never of despair or faltering. 

Kansas, of course, had a few slackers — not as many as other states — those who 
desired to reap the benefits but not share the responsibilities of the American govern- 
ment. There were some who tried to evade their duties. There were some who 



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tried to obtain exemptions, when they were not entitled to exemptions. But this 
much must be said for the young men of Kansas: there were only a very few of 
them, comparatively, who tried, themselves, to get exempted from the draft. Gener- 
ally it was a near relative, or even in some cases an employer who, for the moment, 
magnified his business until it shut off his view of the needs of his country, who 
asked exemption. Little did such employer realize that unless the war was won no 
longer would there be any business for him to do, except as a slave of the Hun. 
In respect to the draft, there is one point that should be preserved in history in 
justice to the colored race. There were of white men, who asked for exemption, a 
few; of white men, whose fathers or mothers or other relatives or employers who 
asked for their exemption, more than a few. But during the entire war I never 
knew of a single colored man who asked for exemption, nor for whom exemption 
was ever asked by any other colored man or woman. The colored people of Kansas 
were 100 per cent American throughout the entire war. 

But of slackerism and disloyalty there wss not enough in this state to justify 
more than passing attention. I believe every Kansas home followed the program 
laid down by the Council of Defense: 

Do the daily tasks a little more efficiently, a little more diligently, to make up 
for the missing ones in the service. 

Economize sensibly, not hysterically, on time, labor, material and food. 

Make every effort count. 

Keep physically, mentally and morally fit. 

Keep down waste. 

Keep down the spirit of service. 

On the whole Kansas lived this sort of life during the Great War. 

Our government called upon us for increased production. We were short of 
labor, short of machinery, short of seed to a certain extent. But the acreage of 
wheat was increased. Kansas farmers, their wives and daughters put in the 
greatest acreage of crops ever recorded in the state. Then came the harvest season, 
with more acute shortage of labor. Women, school boys, school girls, all went into 
the fields. City and county merchants and business men abandoned their stores, 
banks, offices and factories to help with the harvest. The big crops were saved, and 
Kansas did more than her full share in feeding our own troops, our allied troops, 
and the homeless and destitute of a war-ridden continent. 

It was not only along these lines that Kansas took the lead. Kansas officials, 
Kansas men and Kansas women, led in the demand for clean army camps and clean 
camp surroundings, that our boys who were spared from the cruel demands of war 
might come back as clean and manly as when they went. When the war was over 
Kansas led in demands that the soldiers be returned with all possible speed to the 
fields and shops and their usual vocations where they were badly needed to help 
right a war-wrecked world. 

Throughout all the war-weary days I was impressed, as never before, with the 
intense loyalty of our people and their love for the flag. The tragedies in the 
trenches served to bring to the surface the patriotic emotions of our people to the 
superlative degree. Not once did they falter at any appeal I made as governor of 
the state. Their quick responses helped, in a large measure, to lighten my work 
and grief and give me a better understanding of their hearts. I was convinced that 
they were with me heart and soul in my efforts to have Kansas respond to every 
call our country made. Words cannot express my gratitude to the soldier boys of 
Kansas, to the gooil women and men of Kansas, to the school boys and girls, to the 
members of the State Council of Defense and kindred war organizations, and to the 
people generally, for the splendid service they rendered to the state and nation 
when our country's life was in peril. 



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HENRY J. ALLEN 
Governor of Kansas. 



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An (^itrrapas limr 



Henry .1. Allen, Governor of Kansas. 



Kansas went into the war early and stayed late. Before the selectice service laws 
had begun to operate and while men were being invited into the service through 
voluntary enlistment, Kansas early attracted attention for the almost sensational 
promptness with which she filled her volunteer quotas. In France I found Kansas 
men showing up in all of the regiments which arrived in 11)17. They were in 
practically every unit. She was also exceptionally prompt in recruiting her national 
guard to its war strength and getting this great contribution to the defense of the 
country under way. 

Kansas furnished approximately 72,(100 men to the army, navy and marine corps 
during the war. The distribution of troops from Kansas was approximately as 
follows: 

Regular Army and Enlisted Reserve Corps 8,00(1 

Navy 8,000 

National Guard 9,000 

National Army 45,500 

Marine Corps 1 ,000 

The distinct Kansas organiations were the 137th Infantry; the 13!)th Infantry; 
the greater share of the men in the 130 Field Artillery; the 110th Ammunition Train; 
the 110th Engineers; the 110th Field Signal Battalion; the 110th Military Police. These 
were all of the 35th Division. 

The 117th Ammunition Train of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division was an all-Kansas 
organization, as was the 353rd Infantry of the 89th Division. There was also the 
Red Cross Ambulance Company of Topeka and Fredonia, and the Marine Corps 
Rand from Holton, which was attached to the 6th Marines of the 2nd Division. In 
addition to these distinctive Kansas organizations were the 805th and 806th Pioneer 
Infantry Regiment made up of Kansas colored men. 

The Kansas organizations attracted conspicious attention when they arrived in 
France by a certain expression of individuality which they bore. They all made 
distinguished records. 

The history of the 35th Division, which bore the severest losses in the opening 
days of the Argonne fight, has now become known, and the services which this 
devoted and unfortunately-led division performed are receiving a fine recognition 
of the just place that belonged to them in the opening days of America's big battles 
in France. 

The 353rd Infantry of the 89th Division has a history of which its members 
are justly proud. Its record was made in four great battles. Great things were 
expected of it. The division to which it was attached had been trained under the 



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SOME VIEWS TAKEN IN GERMANY 



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command of General Leonard Wood and it lived up to the great expectation which 
waited upon its services in battle. 

The 117th Ammunition train, which was the only Kansas organization with the 
Rainbow Division, received special mention in army orders on several occasions. 
It was regarded as a model in the organization of ammunition trains and its men 
and officers brought home a record of efficiency and strenuous service of which any 
organization in the army might be proud. 

In fact, all the units mentioned came out of the service with a record to entitle 
them to the gravest appreciation and deepest gratitude of the state. They were all 
worthy of the best traditions of Kansas — those that served in France as well as those 
who were preparing at training camps to join their comrades overseas and to whom 
the notice of the signing of the armistice came as a real disappointment. 

No record of the Kansas contribution to the war would he complete which did 
not include the very fine service of those hard working citizens who labored with- 
out ceasing and with little compensation on the selective service boards. The 
problems which confronted these boards were as numerous as those which con- 
fronted any activity of the war, and upon their prompt and wise solution depended 
the gravest results. 

It would be impossible to give the exact number of persons connected with the 
selective service law of this state. Two district boards of five members each; 115 
local boards of three members each, 105 legal advisory boards of three members 
each, and 23 medical advisory boards with en average of six members each, were 
established in the state. In addition to these were the various chief clerks to the 
local boards, clerks and stenographers at headquarters and the various district and 
local boards. An estimate of 2,500 associate members of the Legal Advisory Boards 
with from one to eight registrars to each election precinct of the state for each of 
the three main registrations, viz.. June 5, 1017, June 5, 1918, and September 12, 1018. 

The humble story of the sacrifices which were made by lawyers, doctors and 
citizens in general, who gave up their usual lines of work and spent their time in 
helping under the selective service provisions to create the backbone of our forces 
may never be told. It is replete with ; s fine examples of patriotic devotion as may 
be found upon the field of battle. 

When one has taken into consideration the sacrifices of the soldiers and gives 
to these sacrifices the proper considerations of gratitude, there still remain, as the 
modest recipients of the country's deepest sympathy, the women of the war who 
united themselves into organizations for the carrying forward of relief work for 
soldiers' families at home, for giving entertainment and comforts to the soldiers in 
the training camp and in the field. These organizations made up of devoted women 
covered every part of Kansas. Their representations even reached France and 
joined in the general effort of helping to win the war. 

The more one studies the history of the contribution which Kansas made to the 
man power of the struggle, the more convinced he becomes that the state did its 
full duty and that the period was full of all the rich manifestations of patriotism 
which come always to this state and nation in hours of peril. 



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Supply wagon of 110th Signal Field Signal Bn., formerly 1st F. S. Bn. Kansas N. G., 35th Division, 
carrying supplies to the men working on the hill top, on road between Wesserling and Treh, France, 
July 15th. 1918. 







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"Cliff Dwellers." Third lines occupied by the S9lh Division until Sept. 12. These lines were here 
for nearly four years. Flirey, Meurthe et Moselle, France, Sept. 15, 1918. 



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Habptt? (Unimtij ipartiripattntt tn t§? Wax 



Labette County went to work with a vigor that meant early organization of all 
branches of home service. Under the County Council of Defense an early campaign 
to create a wholesome Americanism, closer co-operation, greater production, elimi- 
nation of waste, conservation in all lines, the spirit of "do" and "give" was 
thoroughly instilled. Meatless and wheatless days and the many necessary require- 
ments were accepeted with a spirit of pleasure and desire rather than inconvenience 
and regret. The County Council of Defense was well organized in each school 
district and with these branches fully alive to the important task before them were 
constantly on the job to meet every requirement asked by the government and with 
the co-operation of the Federal Department of Justice, spreading of German propa- 
ganda and operation of German spies in this county were alway in hand. The 
patriotic Americanism that prevailed in Labette county is shown in the response to 
every call made, it was realized everywhere in the county that the winning of the 
war was everybody's job and that the officers of the law were already over- 
burdened. It would be impossible to give here the name of each individual who 
assisted in the work of the County Council of Defense, but every person in the 
county in sympathy with the interests of America assisted in promoting this work, 
and the work done covered every conceivable plan that would add to a greater 
production and economy, the promotion of a greater Americanism, to do and give 
to the fullest extent possible. 



COUNCIL OF DEFENSE COMMITTEE. 

County Chairman — (). Gossard, Oswego. 

Members— J. F. Steele, Parsons; .1. B. Dick, Labette; F. M. Wheeler, Altamont; 
A. B. Wilson, Oswego; W. L. Conneway, Edna; H. C. Bergman, Dennis; D. A. Boll- 
inger, Mound Valley; Clarence Silcott, Oswego; L. S. Edwards, Chetopa; W. B. 
Weeks, Wilsonton; J. M. Kiker, Oswego; B. L. Hillegos, Chetopa; T. J. Short, Chetopa; 
Tom Sprague, Montana; John Wiggins, Oswego; J. M. Dyer, Parsons; August Boecker, 
Parsons; C. G. Whitby, Chetopa; Frank Stephens, Bartlett; A. H. McCarty, Valeda; 
F. E. George, Altamont; J. F. Nelson, Angola; W. L. Hudgins, Altamont; C. W. 
Edwards. Altamont; I). C. Christman, Oswego. 

County Legal Advisory Committee — C. J. Taylor, chairman, Parsons; W. D. 
Atkinson, Parsons; Nelson Case, Oswego; O. Gossard, Oswego; Mrs. Rosa Patrick, 
Parsons. 

Phe county chairman was also chairman of practically every other war 
measure, including the five Liberty loan drives, in which the county went over the 
top. The work of the county was well organized, and made a splendid record 
for itself. Mr. O. Gossard gives the following report for Labette County: 



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Illustrating methods of throwing hand grenades from the trenches. Advance Outpost of the 137th 

Rtgt. Inf.. formerly the 1st and 2d Regt. Inf. Kansas N. G., near Amphersback, Alsace, Germany. 
AlkisI 29th, 1918. 




3. M-S-R/O 



Automatic rifle team ready for action. Manned by Pvt. John J. Maxwell and Pvt. Earl A. Sullivan 
of Co. B. 137th Regt. Inf.. formerly the 1st and 2nd Regis. Inf. Kansas N. G.. advanced outpost of 
137th Inf.. near Amphei shack, Alsace. Germany, August 29th, lillS. 



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Raised $51,000 on the first Red Cross drive. We did not have a Red Cross 
organization in the county when war was declared; now have the Labette county 
chapter, with an auxiliary in every town, and have about $35,000 in the treasury. 
We went above out quota in every Y. M. C. A. drive, and made quota in both Salva- 
tion Army and Knights of Columbus drives. The county assisted in increased pro- 
duction by better cultivation of crops, plowed closer to fences, and even took some 
fences down for the purpose of tilling all the ground. All vacant lots were used as 
gardens, and also some side streets and alleys were used. No community cooperated 
with a better spirit in the conservation of food or did more to increase production. 
Labette county went far above the quotas in every loan drive. The Home Guards 
were well organized at Oswego, Edna, Parsons, Labette City, Altamont, and Chetopa. 



WAR BOARD 



The number of men who entered the service from Labette County is given at 
1,442; this is no doubt correct of the number who actually went directly from this 
county. However, a very large number of Labette County men, who were out of 
the county when we entered the war, that entered the service from some other 
place, and were not included in this number. 

The Selective Service War Board of Labette County was composed of .lames L. 
Elam, Chairman; E. A. Milliken, 1'. S. Townsend, Vernon Hall, Chief Clerk. 

The first draft registration was June .">, 1917. It included all men between the 
ages of 21 and 31. A second registration for all men between the ages of 18 and 21 
was made in June and another in August, 1918. The final registration was made 
September 12, 1918; it was for all men between the ages of 18 and 45. The under- 
taking of this board was an enormous task. Every man of military age in the 
county was classified according to his status of dependency or his industrial or 
agricultural value to the community. It fell to the duty of the board to determine 
the justness of a man's claim for deferred classification, to examine his fitness for 
military service and to be responsible for sending the man to camp at the proper 
time. 



THE QUESTIONNAIRE 



Please promptly answer, and with care. 
The queries in your Questionnaire ; 
Divorced or single; if wedded tell 
The date when tolled the fatal bell ; 
Give age., condition, weight and race. 
And name each blemish— feet or face ; 
If lame or halt, knock-kneed or blind, 
Please fully state before it's signed. 

If you've had wives, please state how many. 
If not. just why you haven't any ; 
If living with your wife's relation. 
Then state who rules the home plantation. 
Dots main-law pay your house rent? 
If so. please state to what extt-nt ; 
Pkase answer, sir, with utmost care. 
Fore sending in your Questionnaire. 

If you've a wife with you to bunk, 

StaLe when your clothes went in one trunk. 



Here give the total of your boodle. 

And state what's wrong with your poor noodle; 

Have you flat feet or wheels in head ? 

Are you beef cattle all corn fed? 

How have you lived for twelve months past? 

If preacher, state where you starved last. 

Have you your last year's taxes paid? 

Are you supporting man or maid! ? 

If so. is she your wife's relation ? 

(Be careful here with explanation.) 

Have you been trained for war's dread strife. 

Aside from battles with your wife? 

Can you talk Kansas. French or Greek. 

And how much English do you speak? 

When all have answered and with care. 
The queries in the Questionnaire. 
Then Uncle Sam will be much wiser. 
And will proceed to whip the Kaiser. 

— W. H. L. 



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German prisoners captured in the Battle of Argonne by 35th Division drawing water from well for their 
mess. Pierrefitte, Meuse, France, Nov. 9. 1918. 




Chateau de Verdi-r. Stenay. Meuse. France, for 32 months home of the German Crown Prince. Left to 
right: Maj. Gen. H. T. Allen, commanding: general 90th Division: Col. J. H. Reeves, commanding 177th 
Brig.. 89th Division : Col. J. J. Kingman, Chief of Staff. >10th Division : and Maj. G. E. English Brig 
Adjutant. 177th Brig.. S9th Division. November 14. 1918. 



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LABETTE COUNTY LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE 

(The cashier of each bank in the County was a member of the Liberty and 
Victory Loan committee and served during all the drives) also the following persons 
served On the committee: 



I. D. Vdn Meter 
I). S. Bomine 
Guv Call 
H.'L. O'Bryan 
George D. Lyons 
C. B. Buvinger 
A. S. McKnight 

The follow-in? 
LOANS. 



O. Gossard, Chairman. 

Henry Von Trebo 
Robert Beming, Sr. 
P. B. Witt 
E. J. Furley 
A. L. Lugenbeal 
J. E. Rakistraw 
J. H. Gregory 

figures give Labette County subscription to the five LIBERTY 



First Libertv Loan $ 186,900.00 

Second Liberty Loan 468.850.00 

Third Liberty Loan 757,150.00 

Fourth Liberty Loan 1,537,100.00 

Victory Liberty Loan 050,350.00 



Total $3,906,350.00 



BABY BONDS 



The exact figures for Baby Bonds subscribed for in Labette County are not 
available. However, the record made was parallel to other work done — always 
"OVEB THE TOP." 

Compare the figures of each of the five drives and you will better be able to 
realize the splendid organization in Labette County with regard to Home Service 
work. 



LABETTE COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATION 

O. Gossard, Chairman. 



George Thurston 
Miss Ida Marley 

B. H. Montgomery 
J. M. Dyer 

A. B. Wilson 
Herman Hurst 
.1. Q. Boberts 

A. Boecker 
G. H. Clark 

C. F. Silcott 
Grant Owens 
J. Q. Howev 
F. E. Wheeler 
F. C. McCreary 
C. S. Carlton 

B. A. Blake 



Mrs. P. T. Foley, Vice Chairman 



Frank Hoobler 
C. E. Willey 
Charles Gehrs 
Guv Call 
J. F. Holton 
C. G. Whitbv 
J. B. Dick 
Aldo Funston 
Asa Smith 
Frank Stephens 
Allen Townsend 
Joseph Carr 
W. L. Huclgin 
Fred Johnson 
Howard Clark 



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Saluting the colors of the 353rd Infantry, U. S. National Army. Left to right: The mayor, M. Levy 
Alphonery (French) ; General Perelli (French) ; General Ragneneau (French) ; General Wirbel 
(French) ; General J. J. Pershing: M. le Perfect Jassier (French) ; Major General James W. Mc Andrew 
and General Wagstalf (English). July 14th celebration at G. H. Q.. Chaumont. France. July 14. 1918. 



WHEN THE GENERAL CAME TO TOWN 

We wuz workin' in th' offus - 
That is. all exceptin' me — 
An' I wuz jest a-settin'. 
As a orderly should be. 

When a feller wearin' eagles 
Perchin* on his shoulder straps. 
Poked his head right in th' winder. 
An' he talks right out an' snaps, 

"Who's th' officer commandin' 
Over this detachment here?" 
An' th' looey he salutes him. 
While us rest wuz feelin' queer. 

"1 am, sir." the looey tells him. 
Wonderin' what th' row's about. 
"Pershing's comin* in five minits." 
Says ht' kernel. "All troops out." 

Gosh, how we did hurry. 

For we looked a doggone fright — 

Some had hats a-missin' 

An' they warn't a coat in sight. 

First we cleaned up in th' offus. 



Then we swept up in th' street. 
An' it wasn't many seconds 
Till th' place wuz hard t' heat. 

Next we hunted up our clothin'. 
Borried some an' swiped some more, 
Then th' looey got us standin" 
In a line afore th' door. 

Mighty soon around th' corner 
Come two scumptious lookin' cars. 
An' they wasn't any license 
On th" first one — 'cept four stars. 

When th' car had stopped right sudden. 
Then th* gineral he stepped out. 
An' without much larley-vooin' 
He begin t' look about. 

An* th* Frenchmen come a'flockin'. 
An' they couldn't understand 
Why he warn't a-wearin' medals, 
A5n* gold braid f beat th* band. 

Then he made a little lectur. 
Givin' all them Frenchmen thanks. 
Since they'd acted mighty kind-like 
In a-dealin' with his Yanks. 



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The following are deserving of special 
branches of War Work in Labette County: 



mention for active participation in all 



George R. "White 
Roy Lindsay 
0. Gossard 

F. A. Pfeiffer 
Ed O'Herin 
R. W. Coon 
Ed Bero 
George Karr 
L. A. Walker 
W. H. Swartzell 
C. H. Moriarty 
H. Strasburger 

G. H. Hooper 
A. B. Hamlin 
C. M. Reed 
C. A. Lamb 
M. (). Laisure 
Grant Hume 
C. V. Coggins 
W. A. Disch 
otto Feess 

P. P. Duffy 
J. F. Barnhill 
Rev. Alexander E. 
H. A. Bryant 
L. Cortelyou 
Fred Larery 
J. F. Chatam 
W. W. Jones 
J. W. Raines 
L. C. Herman 
R. M. Kleinhans 
W. W. Brown 
C. E. Pile 
C. S. McCray 
F. E. Ronnellan 
E. B. Stevens 
W. I). Atkinson 
W. H. Martin 



Hawke 



J. M. Kersey 

C. W. Doughman 

(). H. Bond 

F. W. May 

Father McKicrnan 

Father McCullough 

Grant Chambers 

George Meir 

Dr. E. W. Roardman 

W. H. Condon 

Ralph Stallings 

W. W. Thompson 

.lohn Bray 

W. A. Blair 

Alfred I). Carpenter 

A. I). Swanwick 

0. E. Woods 

Dan ( ('Council 

Scott Tavlor 

Fred Perkins 

C. S. Perkins 

Sam Carpenter 

Sam Van Alstine 

E. S. Nance 

George F. Stice 

Charles Woolover 

W. G. Taylor 

H. W. Morris 

I'bil Frick 

Robert Deming, Jr. 

Dr. E. E. Liggett 

Dr. 1'. A. Townsend 

Elmer Warbington 

Art Gore 

Clarence Gore 

Clarence Montgomery 

R. H. Montgomery 

H. H. Daniels 

J. W. Morlev 




U. S. Hospital Ship Mercy in the harbor at Brest, France, taking on wounded soldiers. 



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Anti-aircraft machine Run mounted in the trenches. Cpl. Clarence Hays, gunner; Pvt. Geo. B. 
Hogenson and Pvt. John G. Speeds, loaders. This is a Hotchkiss Gun. Co. C, 129th M. G Bn.. formerly 
the 2d Bn., 2d Regt. Inf. Mo. N. G., Camp Jordan, near Ampherauack. Alsace, Germany, August 30. 1918 




Using an artillery "caterpillar tractor" 
phersback, Alsace, Germany. August 31. 



:o pull 
1918. 



truck out of the mud. Camp De Galbert. near Am- 



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iUoinr Ulrurk (Ho. Nn. ID 



ORGANIZED RY LIEUTENANT PIERRE M. KIMBALL 



Motor Truck Company No. HI. a unit of the all-Kansas 117th Ammunition Train, 
consisting of Parsons, Oswego and Chetopa men, was organized by First Lieutenant 
Pierre M. Kimball during July, 1!)17, and has the distinction of being among 
the first 100,000 American soldiers to sue service in France. In accordance with the 
President's call of August 5, 1917, this unit was taken into the Federal service, and 
on August 25 entrained for Topeka where the 1 1 7 1 li (all-Kansas) Ammunition Train 
was mobilized. During the re-organization of this regiment Motor Truck Co. No. 10 
was consolidated with a Truck Company from Rosedale, Kansas, and from that time 
on was known as Truck Company No. 2. Their stay in Topeka of a week gave them 
time enough to change from civilian to kiiaki and learn some of the rudiments of 
soldiering. 

Orders were received from the War Department for the 117th Ammunition Train 
to proceed to Camp Mills, Long Island, at which place the 42nd (Rainbow) an all 
National Guard Division, was being mobilized for overseas service. They remained 
at Camp Mills about three months undergoing vigorous training and receiving the 
necessary discipline for their duties on the other side. 



ATTACKED RY SUBMARINES 

On October 31, 1917, the Ammunition Train left the port of Hoboken, X. .1.. for 
service in France on board the former German-owned ship America, and they had a 
very exciting experience in the submarine infested zone during the trip across. 
About 10 o'clock at night their convoy of ships was attacked by submarines, but 
due to the unusual skill of the Yankee pilot a torpedo, wh'ch was fired, missed its 
mark. This incident resulted in rumors which were out in the United States thai 
the Ammunition Train of the 42nd Division had been sunk at sea. 

With no casualties at sea the Ammunition Train landed at Brest. France, on 
November 11, remaining on board ship one week, due to poor facilities for unload- 
ing, and from this point entrained for Camp Coetquidan to undergo preliminary 
work for the vigorous and intensive duties on the front. Part of the time this 
organization was engaged in hauling ammunition for the French 75 artillery on the 
target range which the American forces were using for practice work w th the 
French 75 guns. This work gave them the distinction of being the first unit of 
the 42nd Division under fire. Fortunately, it happened that it was the fire of the 
American artillerymen. A truck which was hauling ammunition became mired on 
the target range during the firing hours and the men who were with the truck had 
the displeasure of seeing shells fall all around them, throwing mud and stones in 
their direction. This made hasty work necessary with the result that the truck 
was removed from the mire after some very energetic work. 



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Pvt. Ben H. Young receiving firing data on the right, elevating crew of the gv. 
Foret de Sommedieue, Meuse, France, l 1 ... kilometers east of city, Oct. 29, 1918. 



n on the left. 




"Trench Life" Pvt. Vernon H. Butler, Pvt. Geo. Hogenson, Sgt. Mark P. Harris and Pvt. Homer H. 
McDowell of the 129th Machine Gun Bn.. formerly the 2d Bn.. 2d Regt. Inf. Mo. N. G., Co. C. near 
Amphersback. Alsace, Germany, August 30th. 1918. 



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IN EVERY BIG OFFENSIVE 

On February 27, 1918, the various units of the 42nd Division received orders to 
concentrate for front line duty in the Luneville sector. From that date on the 
42nd (Rainbow) Division took part in every big offensive carried on by the Amer- 
ican Expeditionary Forces until the date of the armistice. 

On March 22 they were engaged in a very extensive campaign in the Baccarat 
sector. From June 14 to 18 the Rainbow Division, acting in co-operation with the 
British, played a very important part in the Champagne battle, the 117th Ammuni- 
tion Train being the only American Train that was engaged in hauling ammunition 
during this offensive. From here they moved to the Marne and Chateau-Thierry, 
taking an active part in holding the Huns in their advance on Paris, and on Septem- 
ber 11 to 3(1 they were with the American divisions during the St. Mihiel drive, 
which gave the Germans a taste of what a real American army could do. On October 
3 they were engaged in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, up until the armistice was 
signed. A few days later this famous division joined the army of occupation on its 
way to Germany, the Ammunition Train being stationed at Altenahr. 

When it is realized what an important factor ammunition plays in present day 
warfare one can understand how necessary it is for the ammunition trains to be 
active and on the job at all times. They have not the ordinary protection afforded 
the infantry and artillery men in the way of trenches and dugouts, but do all their 
work in the open and on roads which are well plotted and known to the German 
artillery. At night when they are engaged in their strenuous duties they are not 
permitted to have any lights whatever and must train their eyes so as to distinguish 
objects in the dark because a collision with a motor truck loaded with ammunition 
would prove very disastrous. 

The boys of this famous Kansas organization have been known to be at the 
wheels of their motor trucks for 48 hours continuously without any sleep or any- 
thing to eat . At one time they were attacked by German airplanes, one of the aerial 
torpedoes striking very near a truck and destroying the radiator. The steel bodies 
of the truck train were completely riddled with machine gun bullets by the German 
aviators, and the only protection the drivers had was beneath the bodies of their 
truck. They could not even as much as enjoy the comforts of a roof, being com- 
pelled to sleep in the bodies of their trucks at all times in order that they might be 
ready for immediate duty, and one does not have to stretch his imagination far to 
realize what a poor sleep it must have been for these boys when shells were con- 
tinually dropping in their vicinity. 

CONTINUALLY AT THE FRONT 

Oftentimes, after receiving their orders back to a rest camp for a few days' 
recreation, orders for immediate duty mi the front would intercept them and with- 
out any rest they would return bark to take part in their nerve-racking work. In 
fact, the motor-truck boys were continually on the front from February, 1918, until 
the signing of the armistice. 

On several occasions while hauling ammunition from the ammunition dumps to 
the American artillery and the trenches the artillery men of the enemy would get 
the location of our dumps and immediately begin to shell them. The men continued 
hauling from the ammunition dumps regardless of shell fire and took many chances 
that were dangerous. However, in do!ng their duty it was very necessary that 
their trucks be kept in running condition at all times and this is a big job under 



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Unloading potatoes from railroad ear to trucks to be hauled to Q. M. Warehouses (35th Division) 



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kilometers east of city, October 29, 1918. 



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war time conditions, with few tools or mechanical devices. These men of Motor 
Truck Co. No. 10 returned to their homes after undergoing numerous hardships and 
untold dangers of modern warfare without the loss of a single man. 



MEN WHO ENLISTED IN MOTOR TRICK NO. 10. 



Lieutenant Pierre M. Kimbal 



An Buchon, Cletus W. 
Alexander, Hosea L. 
Bartlett, William H. 
Bie.kne.il, Edgar S. 
Blake, Albert S. 
Blaker, Clarence E. 
Cisco, Harry L. 
Colburn, Harry 0. 
Condy, George R. 
Cornelius, Lewis 
Davis, Carl 
Davis, Samuel M. 
Dennis, Ivan L. 
Donnellan, Robert E. 
Fairchild, Elza S. 
Fairchild, John W. 
Finlev, Walter .1. 
Foster, Ray M. 
Gatton, Sidney M. 
Gray, Gordon 
Graves, Walter 
Holley, Maurice G. 
Hunt, Ezra O. 
Hunt, Ellsworth 
Hyde, Charles W. Jr. 
Joslin, Orland L. 
Kohler, Millard 
Landaker, Charles B. 
Liggett, Herbert H. 
Lortz, Elmer J. 
Lux, Lester J. 
Lvnd, Llovd A. 
McAleer, Clyde B. 



W. 



McCaffrey, Cleve 
Martin, Harry 
Merwarth, George 
Miller, Joe 
Miller, Benjamin N. 
Murray, Herman T. 
Murphy, David E. 
Murphy, Joseph W. 
Nafus, Nelie 
Pownall, Willie A. 
Puffibarger, Earl 
Pulcher, Frederick 
Reeder, Carl R. 
Roach, Owen C. 
Robinson, Arden 
Rodeman, Clarence 
Sandbickler, Emil 
Sawtell, John J 
Schlicher, John 
Searles, Cliffon 
Self, Asburv 
Silcott, Claude 
Silcott, Wayne 
Sharsehl, Rudolph J. 
Sharshel, William M. 
Shreck, Quinton P. 
Stites, Charles E. 
White, Oren R. 
Wilson, William H. 
Willis, George 
Workman, David W. 
Wilkerson, Clarence 



W. 



R. 



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A CamouflaKed U. S. Destroyer at Brest, France 



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THE AMMUNITION TRAIN 

When the fronts are full of Yankees, 

Say about three million men, 
Driving "Fritzie" from his dugout. 

His strong cache and den. 
And the doughboys are a- bombing 

Or with bayonets striking home. 
Or shooting leaden pellets 

Into heartless Dutchmen's dome ; 
And the trench mortar lads are lofting 

Their deadly missies overhead 
To break the German trenches 

And pile up countless dead. 
And the steady, strong, artillery 

The brave front it supports. 
And belches out its shell fire 

That smashes the best Hun forts. 
The Cavalry are waiting. 

Holding hard on trusty steeds, 
To dash among the enemy 

And do some noble deeds. 
Will you stop and ponder. 

Amid the gripping strain, 
Of the lads who bring the ammunition 

In the Ammunition Train? 

From the rear they start at evening. 

On roads as dark as night- 
All shell-torn, wheels a-bumping. 
As they ride without a light ; 



Peering into darkness. 

Driving through the mire; 
Many noble hearts are beating 

As they face the Boche's fire; 
A load of fifty shells apiece. 

And powder boxes four — 
Enough to blow a regiment 

Up to Heaven's door. 
The shells come singing overhead. 

And as they whistle by 
They jab the spurs and shoot the gas, 

It's a case of do or die. 
For the Dutchman now is fixing range 

Deflation, on the road. 
To get the Ammunition Train 

And wreck their priceless load. 
Dugouts? They haven't any! 

Protection ? They have none ! 
As they ride the ways where 

Has fallen many a mother's son. 
A race with death each trip they make 

And no matter what befalls. 
The shells and powder must be 

Put behind artillery walls. 
So when you speak of outfits. 

Why make it very plain 
That the Slacker is an absent one. 

In the 117th Ammunition Train. 

— Sergt. Fred W. Pulcher, Co. B, 117th Ammunition 
Train, 42nd Division, Army of Occupation. 




The hill which protects Bouillonville from German shells in the background. This is the hill over 
which the 353rd Infantry and a few scattered marines went over on September 12th, at about 2pm 
I he infantry started to dig in at the top of the hill but went on about kilos bevond Beney. Bouillon- 
ville was the center of the medical unit for a large part of the German army. Many medical supplies 
were found here, and our medical units were using the German hospitals the same day the drive 
started. A street scene in Boullonville. Meurhte et Moselle, France, September 20, 1918 



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(jjfrgmtizattan of Amlmlanrr (En. Nn, 2 



First organized as an ambulance company on April 29, 1917, by Captain (then 
Lieutenant) John C. Cornell, of Parsons, Kansas. This organization after being ac- 
cepted was turned down to accept Ambulance Company No. 2 from Kansas City, 
Kansas. Later instructed by the Adjutant General, State of Kansas, under date of 
May 17th, to organize a Field Hospital Company. These men had remained loyal 
and intact after being refused admission as an ambulance company and therefore no 
difficulty was experienced in recruiting a field hospital company in the two weeks 
set. This organization was mustered into the state service by Major Seth A. Ham- 
mi! of Topeka, Kansas. On July lath, Major Carl Phillips was ordered in command 
and placed in charge of Field Hospital 140. This position he occupied until the 23rd 
day of August, when he was relieved and sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as Division 
Sanitary Inspector of the 35th Division. Organization left Parsons, September 26th 
for Fort Sill, arriving in Fort Sill September 27, 1917, becoming a part of the 1411th 
Field Hospital, 35th Division. 

MEN WHO ENLISTED IN AMBULANCE CO. NO. 2 



Agnew, Frank 
Ayers, Maurice F. 
Birt, Rov H. 
Bicknell, John R. 
Bailey, Homer Franklin 
Burton, Marion F. 
Cranford, Charles W. 
Caldwell, Dalton L. 
Courtney, John W . 
Carson, Clyde F. 
("linger. Raymond C. 
Clark, Orville P. 
Dent, Baleigh J. 
Davis, Bert Lester 
De Bolt, William Henrv 
Dick, Frank N. 
Elwyn, Russell H. 
Frame, Floyd 
Fowler, Merle 
Gates, Bryan 
Harlow, Mack 
Hackler, Charles L. 
Hammer, Fred 
Hayes, Alfred L. 
Hendrickson, John 



The French, the British, and the Portugee, 
Captain, or colonel, or king though he he. 
Gives a salute in response to me. 
Buck private in Uncle Sam's Infantry. 

There's much that a soldier's salute implies. 
But it means the most when it means, 
"We're Allies !" 

In Belgium and France and Italy 

They talk in ways that are Greek to me. 

But the speech of soldiers' courtesy 

Is a Lingua Franca wherever you be. 



Hodge, Lester D. 
J agger, Buell W. 
Johnston, Earl W. 
Leitnaker, Cherry 
May, Balph 
McClary, Vernon 
Ott, Archie Lee 
Provost, Harold 
Bevnolds, William L. 
Ricketts, Carl I). 

Russell, 

Stephens, Wilbur W. 
Sparks, Albert 
Snyder, Roy 
Spear, Alfred 
Sage, Howard 
Simon, Lawrence Keith 
Sphere, Alfred 
Todd, Alvin 
Vandervoort, Earl J. 
Van Horn, Ralph 
White, Ira Emerson 
Workman, Charles E. 
Wheat, Louis H. 
Willard, Donald 



ALLIES 



With a single gesture. I recognize 
That I am one of the Twenty Allies. 

I never could tell just why it should be 
That the first salute should be up to me 
In this queer, new army democracy. 
But every commander must answer me, 
British, or French, or Indo-Chinee, 
Captain, or colonel, or king though he be. 
There's much that a soldier's salute implies, 
But it means the most when it means, 
"We're Allies !" 

— Merritt Y. Hughes, Pvt., Inf. 



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Illustrating the use of a smoke screen to protect advancing men from the enemy. Personnel made up 
of various organizations throughout the Division. 35th Div. Lerouville. Meuse, France, Nov. 23d, 1918. 




General Peter E. Traub leading Col. T. C. Clark, Major W. W. Taylor, Capt. P. V. Valle, 2d Lieut. K. 
Cooper, Adjt., coming through a crater made by one of the German shells. One of the largest shell 
craters in this sector; 50 ft. long, 25 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep. Deux Mouds, Aux Bois, Meuse, France, 
Nov. 16, 1918. 



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Hatate (dmtnty Inijs who ^ruru in tbr Nauu, 

auu MwcxtwB 



Adamson, Trubv H. 
Alfred, Burton Otis 
Anderson, Benjamin 
Auvinge, August R. 
Barker, Earl E. 
Barnes, J. Vernon 
Barron, Lawrence P. 
Bartlett, Horace B. 
Beainer, Lavton G. 
Beethan, Herbert H. 
Bends, Earl 
Bour, Fred John 
Bragg, Aidna 
Brehm, Arthur 
Bride, John F. 
Britton, Charles A. 
Buckley, Charles B. 
Burks, Presley, Berl 
Burris, Curtis, E. 
Campbell, Murray C. 
Canfield, Alba 
Canfield, Marion 
Cannon, Alfred J. 
Carey, Tim 
Carroll, Charles 
Carey, Tim 
Carroll, Charles 
Chansler, Clarence W. 
Clarke, Roy Basil 
Conway, Ralph Jack 
Cordry, Peter R. 
Cunningham, Clyde T. 
Davis, Ezra T. 
Duvall, Paul A. 
Dwyer, Patrick Bird 
Dykeman, Ivan 
Emery, Will 
Evans, George H. 
Farrell, Frank J, 
Fette, George 
Foster, Dwight H. 
Foster, Lester 
Gillette, Wayne H. 
Godfrey, Edgar D. 
Goltra, Ora Robert 
Gregg, W. W. 
Gridley, John S. 
Guild, Albert L. 
Hammack, Paul 
Haves, Robin 
Hollar, Harold R. 
Hopkins, John 
Isbell, Maurice T. 
Jarboe. John A. 
Johnson, Lee 



Jones, Hershel W. 
Jones, Perry Lewis 
Kane, Harry E. 
Keene, Arthur W. 
Keene, Walter M. 
Kendall. Ralph W. 
Kern, Jerome 
Kimmel, Prentvce H. 
Liebfarth, M. C. 
Lyons, Malcolm 
McBride, Bion 
McClain, David W. 
Mason, William S. 
Mather, John 
Milham, Chester R. 
Miller, Jack 
Moore, Everett 
Moore, William W. 
Murphy, Ellis W. 
Murphy, James P. 
Noll, David 
O'Brien, Joseph 
Olson, Harrv 
Olson, Otis ' 
Patrick, Robert 
Payne, Albert 
Perrv, Isaac L. 
Phelps, Arthur O. 
Richardson, Oard 
Robertson, Harry H. 
Robinson, Rov 
Ross, Milton W. 
Rutherford, Arthur 
Savior, Grady Bryan 
Scott, Harry A. 
Sheehan. Arthur T. 
Sherman, Everett 
Shumaid, George G. 
Smith, John George 
Smith, Flvssis J. 
Talbot, William P. 
Taylor, John 
Thoman, Joseph F. 
Thompson, William B. 
Tillman, James E. 
Turner, Earl F. 
Utley, Claude J. 
Ward, B. H. 
Warwick, R. A. 
Westley, William 
Wlvppie, Jack 
Williams, Daniel E. 
Williamson, Arthur 
Willis, Wilbur R. 
Young, Verne Louis 



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Pvt. A. L. Bogen, Co. A, 140th Regt. Inf., formerly the 3d and 6th Kept. Inf. Mo. N. G., and Pvt. 
F. G. Price, Co. A, 140th Regt. Inf., both wounded but still able to feed Paul Sacker, a German 
prisoner. Cheppy, Meuse, Varennes, France, Sept. 29, 191S. 



AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN* BY 



There's a rumble an' a jumble an' a bumpin' an' a 

thud. 
As I wakens from my restless sleep here in my bed 

o' mud, 
*N* I pull my blankets tighter underneath my 

shelter fly. 
An' I listen to the thunder o' the trucks a-rollin' by. 

They're jumpin' an' they're humpin' through the 
inky gloom o' night, 

'N* I wonder how them drivers see without a glim 

o' light; 
I c'n hear the clutches roarin' as they throw the 

gears in high. 
An' the radiators boilin" as the trucks go rollin' by. 

There's some a-draggin' cannons, you c'n spot the 

sound all right 
The rumblin' ones is heavy, an' the rattly ones is 

light ; 
The clinkin' shells is pointin' up their noses at the 

sky— 
Oh, you c'n tell what's passin' as the trucks go 

rollin' by. 

But most of 'em is packin' loads o' human Yankee 

freight 
That's slam the 'ol soft pedal ontuh Heinie's hymn 

o' hate ; 
You c'n hear 'em singin' "Dixie," and the "Sweet 



Bye 'N' Bye." 
"N* "Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?" as the 
trucks go rollin' by. 

Some's singin* songs, as, when I left, they wasn't 
even ripe 

(A showin' 'at they's rookies wot ain't got a service 
stripe) . 

But just the same they're good old Yanks, and 
that's the reason why 

I likes the jazz 'n' barber shop o' the trucks a-roll- 
in' by. 

Jus' God and Gen'rul Pershing knows where these 

here bird's light, 
Where them bumpin' trucks is bound for under 

camouflage o' night, 
When they can't take aero pitchers with their 

Kokkers i nthe sky 
Of our changes o' location by the trucks a-rollin* 

by. 

So altho' my bed is puddles an' Tm soaked through 

to the hide. 
My heart's out with the doughboys on their bouncin', 

singin' ride, 
They're bound for paths o' glory, or, p'rraps, to 

fight V die- 
God bless that Yankee cargo in the trucks a-rollin' 

by. 

— L. W. Suckert, 1st Lt., A. S. 



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QDutlte Utatnnj of % B9ili Euttaum. 
1. ft A., 191T, 191B, 1013 



ORGANIZATION. 

The 8!)th Division was organized under the provision of the Draft Law of May 
18, 1017, providing for the great National Army. The men were drawn from the 
States of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Arizona nad New- 
Mexico. The junior officers were trained at the Fort Riley Training Camp during 
the summer of 1917 and came mostly from the States of Kansas, Missouri and Colo- 
rado. The senior officers came from the Regular Army. The first Commander was 
Major-General Leonard Wood, who assumed command at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 
August, 1917. 

TRAINING 

The first increment arrived at Camp Funston on the 5th of September, 1917, and 
continued through the fall, during which time the organization of the 89th Division 
and the Depot Brigade were clothed, equipped and put through their first training. 
The various units were organized according to states, as far as was practicable. 

The 353rd Infantry was known from the beginning as the "All Kansas Regi- 
ment." Of the first draft every man was from Kansas and every county in the 
state was represented. 

Colonel James H. Reeves, Lieutenant-Colonel Frank R. Hawkins, Major James 
E. Stedge and Major \V. F. C. Jepson were the Regular Army representatives on the 
official roster. Sixty-five assigned and seventeen attached reserve officers, almost 
all from the 5th Company, 14th Provisional Training Regiment, completed the list. 
In the spring of 1918 many transfers were made to other divisions. The replace- 
ments succeeding came from several of the widdle-west states. The regiment, how- 
ever, still remains fill per cent Kansas men. 

The regiment was organized as a part of the 117th Rrigade, which was com- 
manded from the start by Rrigadier-General Frank L. Winn. With the regiment 
were brigaded the 354th Infantry and the 341st Machine Gun Rattalion. When 
General Winn acted as division commander, the brigade was commanded by Colonel 
James H. Reeves. 

Great difficulties in shortage of clothing, equipment and facilities for training 
were overcome, the cantonment was completed, epidemics of meningitis and other 
less serious diseases were conquered, and the training of the division maintained 
throughout the winter. The training followed the orders laid down by the War 
Department and included the instructions given by the French and British officers 
sent to Camp Funston for that purpose. 



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CHANGE IN COMMANDERS 

Major-General Wood left Camp Funston in November, 1917, for France and re- 
turned in April, 1918. During his absence the division was commanded by Brigadier- 
General Frank L. Winn. Training of the division continued until May, 1918, when 
General Wood took it to Camp Mills, N. Y., enroute to France. Just as the division 
was about to sail, General Wood was relieved from command and tbe division 
sailed under General Winn. 

JOURNEY OVERSEAS 

The division left Camp Funston, via Camp Mills, Hoboken and Halifax, for 
England and France. 

The 353rd Infantry left on the 25th and 26th of May, 1918, and arrived at Camp 
Mills, N. Y., on the 27th and 28th. After four days spent in completing the equip- 
ment the regiment embarked at Hoboken, N. J., June 3rd. 

The 1st and 2nd Battalions were on the H. M. S. Karmala. The 3rd Battalion 
and Headquarters Company on the H. M. S. Pyrrhus, and the Supply and Machine 
Gun Companies on H. M. S. Caronia. All came safely into Liverpool, England, on 
the evening of June 15th and debarked on the following morning. Trains were wait- 
ing to take the regiment to Camp Morn Hill and Camp Winnal Down near Win- 
chester. 

June 21st the regiment entrained for Southampton where transports were wait- 
ing to complete the journey to La Havre, France. The all-Kansas Regiment set foot 
on French soil on the morning of the 22nd of June, and marched immediately to a 
rest camp in the outskirts of the city. From the rest camp at La Havre the regiment 
continued by rail to the following stations: 

Regimental Headquarters, Headquarters Company, Supply Company and the 1st 
Battalion were located at Manois, the 2nd Battalion and Machine Gun Company at 
St. Blin, and the 3rd Battalion at Bamaucourt. 

TRAINING IN FRANCE 

A vigorous course of training was in accordance with A. E. F. orders. The 1st 
Battalion of the 353rd Infantry represented the 89th Division in a parade before 
General Pershing in Chaumont on Bastile Day (July 14th). The Commander-in- 
Chief comm(ended the men highly for the showing they made. The fine appear- 
ance, soldierly bearing and excellent work of the division soon gave it an enviable 
reputation in the American Expeditionary Forces. 

MOVING INTO THE LINE 

The 89th Division was the first American division to move up to the line by 

American truck transportation. It left the Reynel Training area the first part of 

August, moved up behind and relieved the 82nd American Division in the Lucy 
sector, northwest of Toul. 

FIRST ENGAGEMENT 

Before the command of the sector had been taken over by the commander of the 
89th Division, and during the relief, the central parts of the sector were subjected to 



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a severe bombardment of mustard gas by the Germans. This was the 8!)th Division's 
baptism of fire. 

The 117th Brigade went in on the right of the line with headquarters at Minon- 
ville 

The 353rd Infantry moved into the Limey sub-sector on August 6 in good order 
and apparently without knowledge of the part of the enemy. Dispositions were as 
follows: 

First Battalion on the outpost line along the Metz road. Second Battalion and 
Machine Gun Company in support of the Bois de la Baye and Bois de Have. Begi- 
mental Headquarters, Headquarters and Supply Companies and the Third Battalion 
were in the reserve position at Manonville. The Division assumed an aggressive 
role of patrolling and dominating No Man's Land. Although no live identifications 
had been made for several weeks prior to the 89th Division entering the sector, 
from then on there were an average of almost one idntification per night. 

During the first part of August the division served under the 32nd French Army- 
Corps and the VHIth French Army. Later the division passed under the 4th 
American Army Corps (Major-General Dickman) and the First American Army 
(Lieutenant-General Liggett) for the St. Mihiel Offensive. 

PBEPABATION FOB THE ST. MIHIEL OFFENSIVE 

The 89th Division held the wide sector of 10 kilometers front until the night be- 
for the day of the big offensive. The mission of the division was not only to pre- 
vent the enemy from penetrating the line and gaining information of the offensive 
preparations, but also, on the day, to go over the top as a front line division and 
take the key to the enemy's position, the Bois de Mart Mare. The enemy made 
desperate attempts to capture prisoners, and to penetrate our line of outposts. He 
■was foiled in every atempt. 

On the morning of August 19th the enemy laid down a heavy barrage along the 
outpost line. No casualties occurred, even though a 353rd Infantry patrol returned 
to our own lines during the barrage. A. retaliation gas and shrapnel attack took 
place August 21st on the support position. The attack continued without stopping 
from 10 p. m. until 5 a. m,. The Division Commander commended the men highly 
for their discipline and self control. The first hostile raiding party made its attack 
early August 31st on the outpost line held by the first platoon of L company. The 
enemy left two killed, two prisoners and carried back several wounded. Sergeant 
Hyndman was in command of the platoon. Again on September 7th the enemy 
sent over a strong raid ng party against the part of the outpost line held by I) com- 
pany. An effort was made to cut the company off with a box barrage. Hand to 
hand fighting took place, three men were killed and seven wounded, but the enemy 
was completely defeated. 

While the enemy was making these efforts to gain information our regiment 
was sending out reconnaissance patrols every night. By the morning of the 12th 
of September all information of the enemy lines to our immediate front was in our 
hands. 

A IB BATTLES 

Air activity was intense on both sides during this time. Nearly every clear 
afternoon fighting was going on in the air over our lines between the German raiders 
and our own planes. From high in the air would come the faint popping of machine 



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guns; the tiny fighting planes could scarcely be discerned, until a glint of sunlight 
from their shining wings would disclose their position. At almost any hour of the 
day, the buzz of a German observing plane might be heard, soon to accompanied 
by the booming of the anti-aircraft batteries stationed all about, and if the plane 
was not too high, by the insistent tap-tap of our machine guns from the ground. 
Daring raids were made on our observation balloons, and too often were successful. 
The huge sausage would be floating serenely in the air, when suddenly from behind 
some fleecy cloud would dart a swift plane, sweeping toward the balloon, pouring 
forth a stream of bright tracer bullets. If one of these penetrated the huge bag of 
inflamable gas, there would be a great burst of fire and smoke and the remnants of 
the balloon and its car would sink flaming to the earth. The occupant of the 
balloon seldom waited for this to happen. On the first approach of the plane, the 
balloon would be frantically pulled down; and if it went too slowly a little speck 
Would be seen to detach itself from the great mass and float slowly to earth. This 
would be the observer, going home in his parachute. One afternoon a German 
plane, darting swiftly from one balloon to another, shot down three in as many 
minutes and flew safely back. Our own planes made similar attacks on the Ger- 
man baloons, and when we left the sector the score was slightly in our favor. 

On every clear night, German raiders would be heard going overhead to drop 
bombs on Toul and the railroad stations in the rear. Soon the giant searchlights 
would sweep the sky from half a dozen different points. If one of them picked out 
the raider, all would soon be concentrated upon him, and then the booming of the 
"Archies" (anti-aircraft guns) would begin and the bright explosions of their shells 
(light in the air, the great beams of the searchlights, the procession of long, cater- 
piller rockets sent up from the German lines to show the night wanderers the way 
home, all made up a picture of terrible beauty which its observers will never forget. 
It was often difficult to distinguish our own from the enemy planes by their 
markings. 

PROPAGANDA 

A rather amusing feature of this period of the war was the German propaganda. 
Nearly every night when the wind was blowing toward our lines, paper balloons 
would float over to us from the German lines. Attached to these were newspapers 
and pamphlets, badly printed in comical English and containing the crudest possible 
appeals to the American soldiers to quit fighting, to go home or come over and sur- 
render. Evidently many of them were intended to excite animosity towards the 
British; the means adopted to attain this end was to recite the history of the Revo- 
lutionary war, though with the omission of the part played by the Hessians therein. 
That their effort along this line was fruitless, is shown by the fact there was never 
a deserter in the 80th Division and it was not until the Germans were soundly 
trounced that the soldiers of the division quit fighting and went home. 

ST. MIHIEL OFFENSIVE 

Major-General William M. Wright assumed command of the division on the 6th 
of September, PUS. 

On the morning of September 12th the 8Mb Division commenced its first of- 
fensive, in company with the 1st Division, 2nd Division and the 42nd Division, the 
three most veteran divisions of the American Expeditionary Forces. The 89th Divi- 
sion captured all of its objectives and established its record as a reliable fighting 
division. 



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The 177th Brigade had the mission of attacking on the right of the division 
sector, outflanking and mopping up the great Bois de Mart Mare, the key to the 
German position and of insuring the taking of Thiaucourt by the 2nd Division on 
the first clay. 

BELIEF FROM THE PANNES-FLIBEY-LIMEY SECTOB 

The 89th Division was relieved by the 37th American Division, which had come 
over from participation in the Argonne offensive. The relief was slow. The division 
was then assembled near Commercy and moved rapidly by bus to the Becicourt 
area in the rear of the 1st Army, October 9-12. On the 13th of October, the division 
was moved up in the rear of the 32nd American Division in the Epinonville sector 
and took over that line the 19th of October. The division proceeded to clean up 
the Bois de Bantheville and advance the front line nearly two kilometers. 

THE FINAL DBIVE OF THE WAR 

The general situation on the 1st of November was that the enemy was en- 
deavoring to withdraw from France and Belgium and was using desperate efforts to 
stop the pressure coming up from the south and applied by the American Army. It 
was absolutely necessary for him to hold this line in order to guard his railroads 
and permit his withdrawal to the north. If the Americans were permitted to get 
to the Meuse in the vicinity of Stenay, it was clear they could cut the important 
southern railway lines. 

The (S9th Division went over the top on the morning of November 1st and took 
all its objectives on scheduled time. By night the Heights of Barricourt were in our 
possession. It is said that Marshall Foch stated, when he heard the news, "The war 
is over." The fighting continued night and day, first by one infantry brigade, then 
by the other, until the enemy was driven beyond the Meuse. 

In the second day's fight a great deal more use was made of automatic rifles 
than had been accomplished at any previous time; in fact, it was the only instance 
we have of the absolute value of marching fire. The value of the individual rifle- 
man was exemplified in this engagement. In the space of some 300 yards some 75 
German dead were found, after the fight, shot by rifle fire in the head or chest. 

Twice the Corps Commander provided for the relief of the 89th Division, but 
the division commander asked permission to stay in and complete the work. Final 
operation affected the crossing of the Meuse at two places, at Stenay and Pouilly, 
just before the armistice came into effect on November 11th. 

RECORD OF Till-; DIVISION 

In the St. Mihiel sector the division was in the line continuously for thirty-five 
days and continued on a.s a front line division through the offensive and in the or- 
ganization of the conquered ground for over twentj days more. 

In the Argonne. the division was in the line for twelve days of almost continuous 
fighting and then continued in the big drive of hard fighting for the last eleven days 
of the war. 

The division captured 194 German officers and 4.8(57 men. Also 127 pieces of 
artillery and 455 machine guns. The division advanced over thirty-eight kilometers 
including the penetration of two strongly deferred positions. 



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The division suffered as casualties: Killed: officers, 48; men, 1,081. Wounded 
and gassed: officers, 201; men, 5,500. Missing in action: officers, 1; men, 57. Prison- 
ers: officers, 1; men, 4. 

ARMY OF OCCUPATION 

Major-General Frank L. Winn assumed command of the division on the 12th of 
November, 1918, and commenced its march on the 24th of November from the Meuse 
through Belgium and Luxcmberg into Germany. The distance covered was approxi- 
mately 240 kilometers. Service during the period of occupation consisted largely of 
guard duty — interior, special, border and railroad guards. 

THE HOME COMING 

In may come the welcome news that the Division would go home. The 314th 
Trench Motar Battery had already departed, returning on January 10th. The move- 
ment from Germany to the port of embarkation at Brest was accompanied by a train 
daily from each of the three entraining points, Prum, Erdorf and Trier. The move- 
ment was accomplished with great smoothness and dispatch. The first element of 
the Division to sail from Brest embarked upon the Leviathan May 15th. Other 
ships used in bring ng the Division home were the Imperator, Agamemnon, America, 
Montana, Frinz Frederic Wilhelm and the Rotterdam. 

On arrival at New York, officers and men were sent to Camp Upton, N. Y., 
where some were discharged but most were sent to the various demobilization 
camps nearest their homes. A large majority of the men were discharged at Camp 
Funston. Kansas. 



GOODBYE 



Goodbye, pood bye, goodbye. 

We're on the seas for France, 
We're on our way to make them pay 

The piper for the dance. 
To starboard and to port 

Our paint-splotched convoys toss. 
Grim thunderbolts in rainbow garb. 

We jam a path across. 
Our guns are slugged and set 

To smack the U-boat's eye — 
God help the Hun that tries his luck — 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, 

The decks are deep with men. 

We're going to God knows what. 
We'll be back God knows when. 

Old friends are at our sides. 
Old songs drift out to sea, 



Oh. it is good to go to war 

In such a company. 
The sun is on the waves 

That race to meet the sky. 
Where strange new shores reach out to us— 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, 

A long and weary while, 
Through all the drab and empty days. 

Remember us and smile. 
Our good ship shoulders on 

Along a line of foam, 
And every turn the screw goes round 

Is farther still from home. 
We'll miss the things we left, 

The more the white miles fly. 
So keep them till we come again — 

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. 



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The division was organized under War Department orders at Camp Doniphan, 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, September 13, 1917, from the National Guard units of Missouri 
and Kansas. 

On April 11, 1918, it began leaving for Camp Mills. X. Y., and sailed for France 
April 25, 1018, via Liverpool and Winchester, England, arriving in France May 11th. 
It trained with the British first in the area of Eu until June 11th, then to June 30th 
in the Arches area. 

From the training sector it went into the trenches in the Vosges in the De 
Galbert and Gerardmer sectors. On September 11th it was sent to the St. Mihiel 
sector, where it acted as Army Reserve during the operations. 

On September 21st the division relieved a French division in the Grange le 
Compte sector. It next went into the Meuse-Argonne offensive September 26th, 
in the Vanquoise sector until October 1st. when it was withdrawn and sent to the 
vicinity of Conde-en-Barrois where it arrived October 12th, and took over the 
Sommendiene sector. From there it was sent on November 9th to the training area 
near Commercy. 

Major-General W. M. Wright commander the division from August 2."), 1917, to 
June 1."), tills. Brigadier-General N. F. McClure commanded for a period after June 
15, 1018. Major-General Peter M. Traub was next given the command which he held 
until the armistice. 

The division captured from the enemy the following: 781 prisoners, 24 pieces 
of artillery, 85 machine guns ami other material. 

It advanced twelve and one half kilometers in the face of resistance. During 
active operations the following casualties were suffered: Killed, 960; wounded, 
fi.SW; captured. Kill; total. 8,02.1. 

Seventeen Distinguished Service Crosses were awarded to members of the 
division up to March 1, 1919. 

The following organizations composed this division: 09th Infantry Brigade, com- 
posed of the 137th and 138th Infantry Regiments, and 129th Machine Gun Battalion. 
70th Infantrv Brigade, composed of 139th and 140th Infantry Regiments and 1311th 
Machine Gun Battalion; 60th Artillery Brigade, composed of 128th, 129th and 130th 
Artillery Begiments; 110th Trench Mortar Battery: 128th Division Machine Gun Bat- 
talion- 110th Engineer Regiment and Train; 110th Field Signal Battalion; 110th 
Train Headquarters and Military Police; 110th Supply Train; 110th Ammunition 
Train; 110th Sanitary Train, compose,! of 137th, 138th, 139th and 140 Ambulance 
Companies and Field Hospital. 



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"A Cocktail of Flowers" by Roche and Co., Dancing Girls. Left to right: Erie Krebs. Eddie Crawford, 
William Pauly and Daniel Burns. Oudozeele, France. August 4, 191S. 



POILU 



You're a funny fellow, poifu. in your dinky little 
cap 
And your war worn, faded uniform of blue. 
With your multitude of haversacks abulge from heel 
to flap. 
And youl rifle that is 'most as big as you. 
You were made for love and laughter, for good 
wine and merry song. 
Now your sunlit world has sadly gone astray. 
And the road today you travel stretches rough and 
red nad long. 
Yet you make it. petit soldat. brave and gay. 



Though you live within the shadow, fagged and 
hungry half the while, 
And your days and nights are racking in the 
line. 
There is nothing under heaven that can take away 
your smile. 
Oh, so wistful and so patient and so fine. 



You are tender as a woman with the tiny one who 

crowd 

To upraise their lips and for your kisses pout. 

Still, we'd hate to have to face you when the bugle's 

sounding loud 

And your slim, steel sweetheart Rosalie is out. 

You're devoted to mustaches which you twirl with 
such an air 
O'er a cigarette with nigh an inch to run, 
And quite often you are noticed in a beard that's 
full of hair. 
But that heart of yours is always twenty-one. 
No. you do not "parlee English," and you find it 
very hard. 
For you want to chum with us and words you 
lack : 
So you pat us on the shoulder and say. "Nous 
sommes comarades." 
We are that, my poilu, pal, to hell and back. 

— Steuart M. Emery. Pvt., M. P. 



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On February 15, 101'.), twenty far seeing members of the A. E. F. met informally 
in Paris and began to seriously consider their future — and the future of all the men 
and women in the service. Knowing well their "Tommy Atkin" and the length of 
the memory of the citizen and law makers of this busy country of ours, they de- 
cided that there should he an all-embracing organization of veterans for mutual 
benefit, companionship and the maintenance of true American ideals. 

With these ideals constantly in view they have worked steadily toward the 
formation of the American Legion until at this time it is the outstanding veteran 
organization in our country, officially chartered by the Congress of the United 
States, which has been joined by over two million veterans. 

Since its inception the American Legion has waged a relentless fight for the 
right of the veterans, proper hospitalization, care, education and compensation for 
the disabled and an adjusted compensation for all. 

Through the efforts of the American Legion legislation has been enacted wh'ch 
will ultimately provide for proper care for the disabled and their dependents. 

At the present time the American Legion s fighting powerfully through their 
organization for the passage of a national adjusted compensation measure and also 
through the effort of the State Department of the Legion the Kansas State Legisla- 
ture has passed and the governor has signed a bill providing for an adjusted com- 
pensation by the state. This is to be voted on at the general election in 1922. 

The aim and ideal of the American Legion are both set forth by the preamble of 

the National Constitution, which states that: 

"For Cod and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following pur- 
poses: 

"To uphold and defend the Constitution of the Linked States of America; to 
maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Amer- 
icanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great 
War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and na- 
tion; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the 
master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and trans- 
mit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and 
sanctify our comradeship by our devotion lo mutual helpfulness." 

The National Commanders of the Legion to date have been Henry M. Lindsley, 
l!)i!); Franklin D'Olier, 1919; F. W. Galbraith, 1920; John Emery, 1921; Hanford Mc- 
Nider, 11121. 

The Kansas Department of the American Legion to date: 



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litlf) — Dr. W. A. Phane, Commander; Thomas A. Lee, Vice-Commander; W. H. 
Kurtz, G. A. Withen, Albert N. Carr, National Committeemen. 



1920 — Thomas A. Lee, Commander; G. A. Withen, Vxce-Commandei 
Holloway, R. C. Meek, National Committeemen. 



W. W. 



1921— Wilder S. Metcalf, Commander; J. H. Bracken, Vice-Commander; R. C. 

Meek, James Todd, National Committeemen. 



WALTER J. LINDSTROM POST, AMERICAN LEGION, OSWEGO, KANSAS 

The American Legion Post at Oswego enjoys the distinction of having the 
second charter issued in the state of Kansas. Early in the spring of 1019, Ellsworth 
Hunt, Lester Smith, Fred Hettig and others of those who had returned home at that 
time, got together and applied for a charter. At the first meeting the question of a 
name was first discussed and it was unanimously decided to name our post after the 
first local hoy killed in action. Waller J. L'ndstrom. 

The Walter Lindstrom Post has enjoyed prosperity and growth during the past 
two years and to the original fifteen charter members has been added some forty 
others with splendid prospects in the future. The Post boasts of club rooms and a 
membership that has the reputation of putting things over that they attempt. 

Members of this post represent all branches of the serV'ce and nearly all of 
the well known fighting divisions are represented, including the 35th, 89th, 80th, 
5th, 6th, 2nd, 1st, 79th, 42nd, 88th, 90th, and 3rd. Several Aero Squadrons and the 
leading transports and battleships of our Navy have their representatives with us 
as well. A number of the boys carry the wound chevron and there are a number 
with four service stripes. 



THERE'S ABOUT TWO MILLION FELLOWS 

There's about two million fellows from the North, 

South, East and West. 
Who scurried up the sanp plank of a ship ; 
They have felt the guy ropes paying and the troop- 
ship gently swaying 
As it started on its journey from the country of 

the blest. 
They have washed in hard salt water, bucked the 

Army transport grub. 
Had a hitch of crow's nest duty on the way ; 
Strained their eyes mistaking white caps for a 

humpback Prussian sub 
Just at twilight when "the danger's great, they 

say." 
When their ship had lost the convoy they were 

worried just a bit, 
And rather thought the skipper should be canned ; 
And '.he sigh of heartfelt feeling almost; set the boat 

to reeling 
When each of those two million sighted land. 

There's about two million fellows that have landed 

here in France 
They're scattered. GOD and G. H. Q. know where: 
By the cranes where steamers anchor, schooner, 

tramp, or greasy tanker. 
There's an O. D. outfit waiting just to make the 

cargo dance. 
They are chopping in the forest, double timing on 

the roads. 



Putting two- ways where a single went before; 

In the cabs of sweating engines, pushing, pulling 
double loads 

When the R. T. O.'s in frenzied tones implore. 

For it's duty, solid duty with the hustling men be- 
hind. 

From he P. of E."s on up to N<» Man's Land; 

And there's never chance of shirking when the boys 
up front are v. orking 

Night and day must go the answer to the front 
line's stern command. 

There's about two million fellows and there's some 

of them who lie 
Where eighty-eights and G. I.'s gently drop; 
Where trucks and trairs are jamming and the 

colonel he is damning 
Half the ea"th and in particular the Service of 

Supply. 
They have had a s'retch of trenches, beat the Prus- 
sian at his best. 
Seen their buddies fall like heroes right beside ; 
But — there's nigh two million fellows from the 

count "y of the blest 
Who know the cause for which their comrades died. 
Who have crossed the sluggish shallows where their 

little life streams ran 
And broadened just a trifle, you will find; 
And their vision's cleaner, clearer, and they hold 

just that much dearer 
The great and glorious land they left behind ! 

Albert J. Cook, Sgt., Hq. Detch. Armp Corps 



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Wns chartered by Special Act of Congress in 1899 for the men of the Spanish- 
American War. Amalgamation, September 14th, 11)14, with the following service 
men. Any officer or enlisted man or any honorably discharged officer or enlisted 
men, including contract or acting assistant surgeon, dental surgeon or veterinary 
surgeon who enlisted and served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United 
States of America in Cuba or Porto Rica between April 21, 1898, and June 1, 1<S!I!1, or 
who served in China Relief Expedition of 1900, in the Phillipines or Guam from 
April 21, 1898, to July 4. 1902. Department of Mindanao Phillipine Islands between 
February 4, 1899, and December 31, 1904, against Pala and his followers. Jolo, Phil- 
lipine Islands, April and Max. 1905, against Datu Ali and his followers. Mindanao 
Phillipine Islands, October, 1905, or against hostile Moros on Rud-Dajo, Jolo, 
Phillipine Islands, March, 1906, or who has or may serve in the Army, Navy or 
Marine Corps of the United States of America in any Foreign Wars, Insurrections 
or Expeditions which service shall be governed by the ssuance of a campaign badge 
by the Government of the United States of America, shall be eligible to active mem- 
bership. 

Brown and Bishop Post No. 704, Parsons, Kansas, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 
was organized April I, 11)21, with a charter membership of 93. The post derived its 
name from two comrades who payed the supreme sacrifice in France, the sons of 
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. 

Meetings each second and fourth Wednesday of each month. 

The objects of this association are fraternal, patriotic, historical and educa- 
t'onal, to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members, to assist worthy 
comrades, to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their 
widows and orphans, to maintain true allegiance to the government of the United 
States of America and fidelity to its constitution and laws, to foster true patriotism, 
to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to preserve and 
defend the United States of America from all her enemies whomsoever. 

A. C. Mann, Commander, 

Brown and Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Parsons, Kansas. 



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Organized, December 2nd, 11)17. 




flarsmts, Kansas 



BRANCHES 



ALTAMONT 
ANGOLA 



LABETTE 

BABTLETT 

VALEDA 



CHETOPA DENNIS 

OSWEGO EDNA 

MOI'ND VALLEY 



WILSONTON 



AUXILLARIES 
SPBINGHILL SALEM PBAIBIE VALLEY CALDWELL 



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Henry P. Davidson, Chairman 



Charles D. Norton i Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr. 

Grayson M. P. Murphy J William Howard Taft, ex-oflicio 

John D. Ryan I Eliot Wadsworth, Ex-oflicio 

The Red Cross War Council was appointed by President Wilson May 10, 1917, to 
do direct relief work in the United States and abroad during the war. Under the 
direct on of Chairman Davidson the Council organized the Red Cross forces of the 
country on a large scale until by November 1, 1017, the administrative machinery 
was complete. The number of persons then giving their services to the organization 
was not made public, but in France alone there were 8fi4 members of the staff, of 
whom 517 were working without salary or living allowance from the Red Cross. 

NAVAL AUXILIARY RRANCH 

Later in the year the formation of Naval Auxiliaries of the American Red Cross 
throughout the United States was announced by Chairman Davidson, the step being 
taken in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels. 
This branch which was under the d rection of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, of Philadelphia, 
was conducted by women. Its main purpose was to distribute useful gifts con- 
tributed by patriotic women to the young men in the navy. 

MILLIONS FOR RED CROSS WAR FUND 

Early in May 11117, it was decided to create a separate fund known as the Red 
Cross War Fund. In one of the greatest drives of this kind on record millions of 
members were enrolled and more than $100,000,000 was subscribed to this fund 
in the first drive. Following the raising of this fund the chief theater of work was 
in connection with American and French troops and the civilian population in 
France. 

The principal activities of the Red Cross Commission in France, headed by 
Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, included the establishment of Canteens for every 
Corps of the American and French armies, the operation of hospitals in Paris 
and elsewhere, the building of a large hospital at Evian, near the Swiss 
frontier, for the reception and care of repatriated French people and the founding 
of hostels for the care of French children and orphans. Aside from this the Com- 
mission to France established a Red Cross supply service with main warehouses for 
the distribution of supplies to the hospitals throughout France, the rehabilitation of 
several French villages, and in co-operation with the Rockefeller institute aided in 
the fight against tuberculosis. 



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The Red Cross Commissions were also actively interested in supplying American 
aid in Russia, Roumania, Italy, Serbia and other devasted countries. 

In the United States the work of the Red Cross was in the Cantonments, Army 
camps, Naval stations and were active wherever soldiers were stationed, not to 
mention the thousands of canteens established all over the country supplying medi- 
cal and general articles for use of the men in the service. The Red Cross sanitary 
service co-operated everywhere with public health officials preventing the outbreak 
of epidemics. 

In addition to this the American Red Cross workers knitted more than 15,000,000 
garments for the Army and Navy, turned out 253,196,000 surgical dressings, 22,255,000 
hospital garments and 1, -164,01)0 refugee garments. The work was done under the 
direction of 3,870 chapters of the Red Cross with more than 31,000 branches and 
auxiliaries embracing more than 8,000,000 workers. 

The Red Cross Chapters throughout the United States did civilian relief work 
at home, established a nursing service and had the war continued would have 
furnished an unlimited number of trained nurses. 

While doing work abroad officers of the Red Cross were authorized to use 
military titles ranging from first lieutenant to major-general. They were also au- 
thorized to wear uniforms. The titles did not confer any military powers nor 
could they be used in the United States. 




United States Hospital Train bringing wounded soldiers from the Front to Base 
Hospitals at St. Nazaire, France 



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PARSONS. KANSAS 
ORGANIZED DECEMBER 2, 11117. 

(Previous to the organization of the Labette County Chapter, Red Cross, Parsons men and women 
were active and busy doing war work under the name "Woman's Navy League" which transferred its 
activities to the Red Cross Chapter.) 

(Onyuthathut 

SIGNATURES FOR THE CHARTER. 

C. M. Poughman | W. II. Martin 

C. I). Humphrey E. W. Boardman 

Alexander E. Hawke i 1!. \V. Coon 

H. A. Bryant | J. S. Smith 

C. V. Coggins I C. H. Moriarty 

T. E. Donnellan I Frank Pfeiffer 

Will J. Van Meter E. F. O'Herin 

P. P. Duffy I G. H. Hopper 

FIRST OFFICERS ELECTED 

Dr. E. W. Boardman, Chairman I Kirby Rarton, Treasurer 

Mrs. W. H. Martin, Vice Chairman | George Karr, Secretary (Temporary) 

(Secretaries — Mrs. J. C. Eggleston, December 27. 1917. to October 1, 1918 : Miss Ida Arnett. 
October 1, 1918. to January 6. 1919; Mrs. T. A. Cordy. January 6. 1919. to November 1. 1919.1 

SLOGAN 

"If your business and need of help to your Government interfere, why let your 
business go." 

MHMRERSHIP AND BRANCHES 

Immediately after organization committees were appointed on membership 
and other activities. The first Christmas Roll Call showed a membership of 6,933. 
Soon after there were organized active branches in Angola, Altamont, Bartlett, 
Chetopa, Dennis, Edna, Labette, Oswego, and Valeda, and auxiliaries in Caldwell, 
Prairie Valley, Salem, Spring Hill and Wilsonton, each with an active chairman and 
large memberships. The second Christmas Roll Call resulted in 8,384 members. 

PRODUCTION 

Early in January, 1918, active work under the Red Cross organization began and 
large shipments of supplies were sent to Central Headquarters at St. Louis. Mrs. 
.1. C. Eggleston was chosen permanent secretary and gave her whole time to the 
work. Work rooms were established where knitting, cutting and sewing of garments 
and making of bandages and other hospital and war necessities were turned out in 
abundance. Actual figures of the work done appears in another part of this article. 



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PUBLICITY 
The publicity committee, Mrs. T. A. Cordry, chairman, did fine work from the 
beginning, and as each feature of the work was mapped out this committee put it 
into public action. Their slogan was: "For your Red Cross, For my Red Cross, For 
our boys across the seas, we all must work, and none must shirk, to bring all safe 
home and free." 

BUILDING THE CANTEEN "HUT" 
The building of the Canteen "Hut" in Parsons at the early date of its erection is 
due to the personal effort of Miss Loura Dale Perry (chairman of Canteen Work 
and Military Relief Work Committees) and a few assistants, since there were no 
funds available in the Chapter for canteen service. Always an ardent believer in 
the need of a canteen in Parsons, Miss Perry, with three loyal supporters tagged 
at a base ball game, raising the first money. Afterwards others joined in this work 
and by giving musicals, dances, entertainments, etc., they not only raised sufficient 
money for building the Parsons Canteen Hut, but turned in a surplus of more 
than $350.00 to the Chapter. 

CANTEEN 

Canteen work took on an active part early in July, 1918, altho much good work 
had been done previous to this time by Red Cross members, in meeting trains and 
extending aid to soldiers passing thru Parsons. The splendid new Canteen building 
was erected at the M., K. & T. station and squads — a captain and fifteen ladies for 
each day, the school teachers having charge on Sundays and Mrs. Bertha Owens, 
commandant and Mrs. Frances Reynolds, assistant commandant, of Canteen, having 
charge of all purchasing — were serving from one to 200 soldiers a day from the 
beginning. The following table will give a better idea of the splendid work done 
by the workers: 

Number of Soldiers served 101,500 

Number of sick and wounded Soldiers served 1,016 

Tobacco, lbs 1,200 

Cigars, boxes 50 

Matches, gross 67 

Postcards 100,000 

Magazines 100.000 

Newspapers 500 

Gum, boxes 175 

Layer cake 600 

Telegrams sent 80 

Cigarettes, against Kansas State law to 
sell. 



Coffee, gallons 4,700 

Iced drinks 7,000 

Ice Cream, gallons 370 

Sandwiches 200,000 

Cookies, lbs 3,250 

Doughnuts, dozen 4.000 

Pies 700 

Chocolate bars, boxes 1,350 

Candy, lbs 200 

Fruit, bushels 503 

Hot meals 234 

Lunches '00 

Cost to Canteen $7,130.01 

CANTEEN TEAMS 
Mrs. Bertha Owens, Commandant. Mrs. Frances Reynolds, 1st Lieutenant. 
Mrs. Frances Reynolds was appointed commandant October, 1918, and served 
until the Canteen was closed in November, 1919. 



Monday Team Mrs. 

Tuesday Team Mrs. 

Wednesday Team Mrs. 

Thursday Team Mrs. 

Friday Team Mis. 

Saturday Team Mrs. 



R. T. Orchard Captain 

M. .1. McKnight Captain 

B. W. Gaddis Captain 

S. A. Gottlieb Captain 

Harry H. Johntz Captain 

Fred Stocker Captain 



Sunday Team — School Teachers Vesta and Cora Smith 



Captains 



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CANTEEN WORKERS 



Mrs. Lora H. Walser 
Mrs. T. E. Donnellen 
Miss Helen Osgood 
Mrs. Nettie Castineau 
Mrs. L. L. Willey 
Miss Cora Marshall 
Mrs. Wanda Williams 
Miss Rertha Rertsch 
Mabel Savior 
Reth G. Lewis 
F. R. Hill 



Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 



W. E. Wells 
Delia Kennedy 
Ethel Ubuck ' 
Faud a E. Swaim 

Mrs. George M. Ramble 

Miss Lila Hucke 
J. W. Athey 
Helen Missildine 
Retty Thornton 
Martha R. Musser 

Miss Naoma Hallock 

Miss Verna Wise 

Miss Euphrasia Kirk 

Mrs. O. H. Neal 
C. Clark 
F. H. Moore 
Isabell Martin 
Anna C. Reilv 
Stella Rlair 
Veronica Rrady 
Louise Vedder 
Emma Jones 
Eliza Gross 
Pearl Southwick 

Mrs. Anna Thomas 

Miss Floy Campbell 

Mrs. Neota Corbett 

Mrs. Relle Emery 



Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 



Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 



Mrs. Mary Rlackmore 
Miss Ethel M. White 
Miss Florence Delay 
Mrs. Emma A. Alexander 
Miss Viola Rlackman 
Mrs. M. M. Galubee 
Miss Roma Hall 
Mrs. Nellie Pritchard 
Mrs. Mabel Steele King 
Mrs. Clifford Stevenson 
Mrs. E. H. Martin 
Mrs. Fannie Chappel 
Miss Creta Arnett 
Mrs. Cora Glauber 
Miss Alice Ruckley 
Mrs. Norman Riley 
Mrs. Eva Marburger 
Mrs. E. Potter Maclean 
Miss Marguerite Chatham 
Mrs. John Maser 
Miss Rertha Perry 

Mrs. Minnie Rodwell 
Mrs. Clela Russell 

Miss Mildred Reid 

Miss Jimmie Murphy 

Mrs. G. C. Wall 

Mrs. Anna Sauter 

Mrs. Harriet Doughman 

Mrs. Ceola Wharton 

Miss Mary L. Scott 

Miss Mabel Madden 

Mrs. Hattie Young 

Mrs. Maude Funston 

Mrs. J. M. Gregory 

Mrs. Carrie Webb' 

Mrs. Nellie Parker 

Mrs. Sallie Wilson 

Mrs. Mvrtle Railev 

Mrs. Elizabeth Waters 




PARSONS RED CROSS CANTEEN 



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CANTEEN WORKERS— MONDAY— MRS. R. T. ORCHARD, CAPTAIN 



Miss Dessa Rohm 
Miss Lena Skelton 
Mrs. Lillie Boardman 
Miss Helen Piper 
Mrs. P. T. Foley 
Mrs. M. J. McKnight 
Mrs. Ida M. Shide 
Miss Evelyn Peck 
Mrs. C. R. Lindsay 
Miss Mildred Wirth Neely 
Miss Mattie Moore 
Miss Loretta McCarthy 
Miss Ruth Busley 
Miss Clara Morris 
Mrs. Roy Trullinger 
Miss Laura Clarke 
Mrs. Belle Curry 
Miss Nora Hacker 
Mrs. Maud Miller 
Mrs. Carrie Orme 
Mrs. George White 
Mrs. Hilda Condon 
Miss Isabel! Neely 
Miss Hazel Blair 
Mrs. Katherine Poole 
Mrs. Relle Cadmus 
Miss Minnie Olson 
Mrs. R. K. Blair 
Miss Dorothy Moore 
Mrs. Charles Lewis 
Mrs. Jennie Chellis 
Miss Vesta Smith 
Mrs. Gertrude King 
Miss Clara Louise Osgood 
Mrs. Pearl Johntz 
Miss Opaline Saylor 
Mrs. R. M. Kleinhans 
Miss Myrtle Rurnette 
Miss Hilma Goodin 



Mrs. Blanche Clark 

Mrs. Fred Stoeker 

Mrs. Bertha Owens 

Mrs. William Strasburger 

Mrs. Rose Gillett 

Mrs. Lorain Haner 

Miss Ada Arnett 

Miss Marie Frances Willis 

Miss Hildegard Hewitt 

Miss Lois Elswick 

Miss Katherine Lonberger 

Miss Cora Smith 

Miss Sadie Corbett 

Mrs. Ida Dunn Orchard 

Mrs. Anna Kersey 

Miss Mabel Rurnette 

Mrs. Anna Flvnn 

Mrs. T. B. Potter 

Mrs. Max Dannenbaum 

Miss Emil Steele 

Miss Hallie Rude 

Miss I. eta M. Scott 

Mrs. Gibbons 

Miss Hazel Mills 

Miss Blanche Tomlinson 

Miss Carrie Elswick 

Mrs. M. Gottlieb 

Mrs. Frances Reynolds 

Mrs. Harry Baldwin 

Mrs. E. L. Green 

Miss Ida Cordry 

Miss Fern Gary 

Miss I ola Pierson 

Mrs. S. A. Munneke 

Mrs. .1. R. Farriss 

Mrs. Albert Quick 

Mrs. Marie Gaddis 

Mrs. Fred Stoeker 



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PARSONS 
HOSPITAL GARMENTS 



Pajama suits 3,051 

Undershirts 1,134 

Helpless Case Shirts .... 415 

Operating leggings 14(i 

Bandaged foot socks 327 

Bed shirts 1,477 



Under drawers 1,605 

Bed jackets 383 

Convalescent robes 161 

Trench slippers 70 



Totil 
REFUGEE GARMENTS 



8,796 



Layettes (32 pieces) 26 

Girls dresses 1,312 

Girls petticoats .. 2,871 

Girls drawers 327 

Girls waists 30 

Boys shirts 78 

Baby jackets HI 

Baby booties 165 

Girls chemise 2(i7 



(iirls nightgowns 17 

Girls pinafores 130 

Womens aprons 120 

Womens shawls 2 

Bovs undershirts 383 

Baby caps 10 

Diapers 36 



Total 6,920 



KNITTING DEPARTMENT 



Sweaters 1,012 

Helmets 382 

Mufflers 70 

Hot water bottle covers 23 

Sunshine Afghans 4 

Wristlets 833 



Sox, pairs 2,758 

Wash rags 78 

Trench caps 6 

Boys scarfs 3 



Total 5,158 

SURGICAL DRESS'NG DEPARTMENT 



Government pads 15,0110 

Other pads 400 

9x9 Compressers 860 

Sculletus 310 

2x2 Wipes 34,241 

Miscellaneous for Canteen 75 

4x4 Wipes 173,300 



8x4 Compressers 111,362 

5-yard rolls 158 

Main tailed 2,040 

Triangular 3,013 

Shot bags 3,750 



Total 344,599 




CANTEEN WORKERS— TUESDAY— MRS. M. ,1. McKNIGHT, CAPTAIN 



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CANTEEN WORKERS— WEDNESDAY— MRS. B. W. GADDIS, CAPTAIN 

MANUEL TRAINING DEPARTMENT 

Miscellaneous articles 



Bedside tables 23 

Boxes for shipping 50 

Splints 1.140 

Scrap books 145 



806 



Total 2.254 



CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT (Motor Corps) 

First Drive (Clothing): 

(lathered and sent 90 boxes, weighing a total of 15,160 pounds. 

Second Drive (Linen shower for hospitals in France): 

Hand towels, 1,000; sheets, 250; handkerchiefs, 1,000. Total 2,250. 

Third Drive (Fruit Pits and nut shells to make carbon gas for gas masks): 
(lathered, sorted and sent 2,095 pounds. 

Fourth Drive (Tinfoil and platinum): 

(lathered 265 pounds of tinfoil; old silver sold $5.30. 

Fifth Drive (Magazines and old newspapers) : 

Magazines, 12,000 pounds; old papers, 10,000 pounds. These sold for $75.00. 

Cleanup: 

Ten braided rugs made from scraps left in work room, sent to nurses and 
officers rooms in hospitals in France. 

Special mention is made of the work done by the Motor Corps since it was men's 
jobs done by women. They made trips to all branches of Red Cross in county, 
gathered in supplies, delivered the freight, made Canteen calls and were always on 
the job when there was anything to haul for the Red Cross. 



HERE THEY ARE 

Captain — Mrs. George R. White I Second Lieutenant— Mrs. Wayne Condon 

First Lieutenant— Mrs. Mabel Steele King | Sergeant— Mrs. J. C. Missildine 



Sixty-six 



ACTIVE WORKERS 



Mrs. C. Rerglund 
Mrs. .1. R. McCaffrey 
Mrs. A. L. Leonard 
Mrs. I.. L. Waller 
Miss Pauline Drew- 



Miss Ruth Johnson 
Miss Roma Hall 
Miss Helen Piper 
Mrs. E. W. Boardman 
Mrs. Then. Weisbrod 



Trucks were fnrn : shed free to the Motor Corps for hauling by 

Alex Phillipy F. M. Watt M. M. Price 

BOXES SENT OVERSEAS 

A Christmas Rox was sent to every "Roy" in the service from Labette County. 

WAR FIND DRIVES (Red Cross) 

The first drive for War Funds took place in June, 11117 (before a Red Cross 
Chapter had been organized in Labette county). 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



C. H. Dotighman, Chairman 

W. H. Martin. Campaign Manager 
T. E. Donnellan. Treasurer 
Dr. E. W. Boardman 



1!. F. Anderson 
C. C. Humphrey 
E. F. O'Herin 



FIFTEEN TEAMS 



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C. H. Moriarty Captain 

Will Van Meter Captain 

11. A. Bryant. Captain 

L. A. Walker Capatin 

P. Duffy Captain 

II. Cooper Captain 

S. Smith .....Captain 

V. Coggins Captain 

M. Kleinhans Captain 

C. Reuthinger Captain 

Rev. A. E. Hawke Captain 

I'" rank Foresman Captain 



P. 

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CANTEEN WORKERS— THURSDAY— MRS. S. A. GOTTLIEB, CAPTAIN 



Sixty-seven 




CANTEEN WORKERS— FRIDAY— MRS. HARRY II. JOHNTZ, CAPTAIN 



Team No. 13 John Martin ...Captain 

Team No. 14 Frank Pfeiffer Captain 

Team No. 15 Ralph Coon Captain 

Parsons allotment was $15,01)11.110 

Parsons, alone, went over the top with $19,300.00 

Rest of the county 12,465.00 



Total $31,765.1 

SECOND WAR FUND (Red Cross) 



Quota for Labette county. 
Amount raised 



.$25,000.00 
$44,510.00 



CASH RECEIVED AND PAID OUT 

From December 2, 11)17. to September 1, 1919. 

Cash received at Chapter headquarters (alone) $69,899.63 

Cash paid out at Chapter headquarters (alone) $48,505.57 

Cash on hand, Chapter headquarters $21,304.06 

Cash on hand in branches $10,250.06 

Total cash on hand in Labette County Chapter $31,650.12 

CASH SENT TO NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 

Surplus from Chapter headquarters $ 3,476.56 

Surplus from 10 branches 4,496.75 

Covernment credit for surgical pads 3,648.98 



Total $11,622.29 

NURSES 



Miss Gertrude Hazen, Overseas. 

Annie Hayes, Overseas. 

Miss Florence Evert, Army Camp. 



Miss Gertrude Evert, Army Camp. 
Miss Edna Copes, Army Camp. 
Agnes Covalt, Army Camp. 



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CANTEEN WORKERS— SATURDAY— MRS. FRED STOCKER, CAPTAIN 



NURSES— GRADUATE AND IN TRAINING 



Mrs. Matilda E. Ridgby 
Marguerite McChesney 
Ethel V. Bates 
Miss Kate Goundy 
Miss Ada Mattox" 
Mrs. Carol;) E. Hatzfield 
Gertrude Johnston 
Mabel A. Cannard 
Eunice P. Cannard 
Miss Cora M. Marshall 
Mrs. Boyer 
Miss Lena (iuiles 



Miss Elizabeth Gore Moran 
Mrs. Tom Brogan 
Mrs. .1. B. Hinthorne 
Mrs. G. F. Ridgeway 
Mrs. Julius Rotter 
Sister Hubertine 
Sister Darilla 
Sister Columbia 
Sister Mary Conzaga 
Sister Mary Michael 
Miss Anna O'Brien 



NURSES— FIRST AID CLASS 
Dr. T. D. Blasdel, Instructor and President. Miss Hazel Wright, Secretary. 



Helen Buholt 
Edna Copes 
Mary E. Curtis 
Mrs." J. L. Chatham 
Marguerite Chatham 
Mrs. G. L. Danforth 
Emma Dovle 
Mrs. Mary" N. Dodd 
Mrs. Fannie Edwards 
Irma Edwards 
Cecelia W. Humbert 
Leota Sue Kendall 
Mabel Kelley 
Pearl Carney Liddell 
Lena E. Lynd 
Blanch Duncan 
Florence (laither 
Roma Hall 
Hildegard Hewitt 
Bertha Perrv 
Mrs. Mabel Randell 
Helen Rowland 



Sarah E. McKnight 
Rachel E. Mentzer 
Katheryn C. Poole 
Opaline F. Saylor 
Beth Spooner 
Mrs. L. L. Willey 
Louis Zingraff 
Maude Watson 
Ethel B. Wells 
Crete Arnett 
Mrs. E. H. Anthony 
Mrs. Mary Barton 
Mamie Bever 
Marie Dougherty 
Cordelia Brigham 
Zaida Bowland 
Helen Bussell 
Mrs. Mamie Scheibner 
Leita Scott 
Clara Wiggins 
Miss Willis 



Sixty-nine 



Miss Gertrude Hazen, Chetopa, Kansas, spent ten months in France as a Canteen 
worker. Miss Hazen was one of the last of the Canteen workers to leave for America, 
which was after the American soldiers had departed. Of the many Labette County 
girls who applied to do Canteen work. Miss Hazen was the only one permitted to go 
overseas. 

THE RAINBOW CLUB 

The Rainbow Club in the Red Cross was composed of mothers, sisters, wives and 
sweethearts of the Rainbow Division boys and all were loyal workers for the Red 
Cross. 






RED CROSS MEMORIAL SERVICES 

The first Red Cross Memorial Services, honoring the memory of the Soldier 
Boys of Labette County, who have given their lives for their country, were held 
at Oswega, Kansas, September 29, 1918. W. H. Martin, chairman of services, Dr. 
J. M. Kersey, address, eulogy and presentation of Red Cross wreath. This was an 
inspiring occasion, with Labette County's entire population present. 

SECOND MEMORIAL SERVICES 

(Under the auspices of the War Camp Community Service. I 

The second Memorial Service honoring deceased Labette County boys in the 
service, was held at City Hall park, Parsons, Kansas, July 27. l!il!l, in which the Red 
Cross assisted in several ways. 

Dr. E. W. Boardman with an appropriate speech, unfurled the "Gold Glory" flag 
in which there were 61 gold stars for our Labette County heroes. 

The County Service flag, with 1.442 stars, the number of boys returning from 
service, was demobilized also. These two flags were made in the Red Cross work 
rooms under the direction of the secretary. The "Gold Glory" flag was made by 
Hannah Jamerson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the 
County Service flag by Antietam Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
Ex-Governor Hoke, of Kansas, delivered the principal Memorial address. 




CANTEEN WORKERS— SUNDAY— CORA AND VESTA SMITH, CAPTAINS 



Seventy 



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DENNIS 

The first to ask permission to organize a branch of Labette County Chapter 
were the people of Dennis. Organized with the following officers: Roy F. O'Brien, 
Chairman; Mrs. W. S. Mortimer, Vice Chairman; J. C. McGee, Treasurer; Mrs. R. B. 
Edmundson, Secretary. The branch started with 440 members. 

Work Accomplished 



Surgical Dressings 25,750 

Hospital garments 714 

Knitted garments 152 

Government pads 425 

Comfort kits fi 

Refugee garments 140 



Shot bags 325 

Hospital pillow slips 8 

Sheets 12 

Bath towels 25 

Hand towels 50 

Handkerchiefs 50 



Approximately $1,400.00 was sent away for war supplies and $522.68 given for 
re-construction work. 

CHETOPA 

Chetopa was organized with Mrs. Mary Williams secretary, and did fine work in 
all departments. Besides their work room activities and financial efforts the 
Chetopa Bed Cross workers were always actively engaged in war work. 

EDNA 

Edna was organized with the following officers: Miss Laura Kesler, chairman; 
Mrs. H. P. Hardin, vice chairman; Mrs. AY. L. Conneway, treasurer; Mrs. C. E. Kallen- 
berger, secretary. 

The work done by ladies of this branch was splendid, even to the old ladies 
and young girls. Besides their work room activities Edna branch sent in 23 sheets, 57 
bath towels, 72 hand towels, 79 handkerchiefs. 

( tSWEGO 

Oswego was organized and began active work with the following officers: Sam 
Carpenter, Chairman; Mrs. Kate McGregor, vice chariman; Mrs. Anna B. Gossard, 
treasurer; Mrs. Mary Gray, secretary. 

Oswego may be proud of her workers, especially Mr. O. Gossard, who gave 
practically all of his time to Bed Cross work in the county. 

ALTAMONT 

Altamont branch was organized January 6, 1918, with the following officers: 
C. H. Miller, chairman; Mrs. I. G. Gibson, vice chairman; Mrs. W. L. Hudgen, 
treasurer; Mrs. G. S. Grant, secretary. 



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The six hundred members of this branch were responsive to all calls and 
also the refugee work. The Labette County High School assisted greatly in Junior 
work. 

BARTLETT 

Bartlett was organized with the following officers: T. ('.. Knowles, chairman; 
F. T. Stephens, treasurer; Miss Theresa O'Brien, secretary. 




BARTLETT RED CROSS WORKERS 



Miss Theresa O'Brien, Chairman 
Mrs. Carrie Parnell 
Mrs. Edna Crane 
Mrs. Sylvia Vance 



Miss Jennie Batv 
Mrs. Addie Gillet 
Mrs. T. (i. Knowles 
Mrs. T. P. O'Brien 



The output of their Surgical Dressings Department was 15.375. 



Sheets 12 

Bath towels 26 



Hand towels ... 
Handkerchiefs 



55 
50 



Receipts $2,468.05 



The Barlett branch had the distinction of being the first to go "Over the Top" 
in every drive in the county. Miss Theresa O'Brien, secretary, was a leading light 
in all Red Cross work, chairman of Woman's Work Committee, supervisor and 
instructor of Surgical Dressings Department, attended to packing and shipping, 
chairman of Woman's Committee in Victory Loan Drive and spent practically all 
her time to Red Cross work. Miss O'Brien with eight others earned the honor of 
wearing the Bed Cross on their caps. 

LABETTE 

The Labette branch was organized December 16, 1917, a few days after the 
Chapter was organized at Parsons, with the following officers: L. Bude, chairman; 
L. W. Jackson, vice chairman; J. B. Dick, treasurer; Miss Zenith Mullen, secretary. 
Miss Alice Bude was chairman of woman's work. 



Seventy- two 



MOUND VALLEY 

The Mound Valley branch was organized March 12, 1918, with officers as follows: 
I. M. Hinds, chairman; A. L. Bushnell, treasurer; Mrs. Coma Chapman, secretary. 
In July they had a membership of 1121). 

ANGOLA 

Angola branch was organized March 15, 1918, with Mrs. Harriet B. Carr, chair- 
man; F. W. Nelson, treasurer; Mrs. Mamie Lugenbeal, secretary. 

In July they had 284 members. 



VELEDA 

Veleda was the last of the ten branches organized for Labette County. Officers 
were: Charles Fitch, chairman; Mrs. A. H. McCarty, vice chairman; A. H. McCarty, 
treasurer; Mrs. Fred Wimmer, secretary. 



AUXILIARIES AND OFFICERS 

ALPHA READING CLUB (for Knitting)— Mrs. C. B. Fessenden, chairman; Mrs. 
J. L. White, treasurer; Mrs. Kirby Bartin, secretary. Membership 23. 

CALDWELL— Mrs. Charles Dale, chairman; Mrs. H. F. Briggs, treasurer; Miss 
Mabel Richardson, secretary. Membership 27. 

MONTANA — T. A. Sprague, chairman; Alice Sprague, treasurer; Susie Hertzig, 
secretary. Membership 12. 

PRAIRIE VALLEY— Mrs. W. M. Bowman, chairman; Mrs. Ray Taylor, treasurer. 
Membership 17. 

PERSERVERANCE (Colored)— Mrs. J. W. Wood, chairman; Mrs. Mattie Shep- 
herd, treasurer; Mrs. Lillian Christman, secretary. Membership 32. 

SALEM— Mrs. J. A. Needs, chairman; Mrs. Lydia J. Birt, treasurer; Mrs. Stella 
Barnhart, secretary. Membership 12. 

SPBINGHILL— Mrs. Anna K. Scott, chairman; May Wheat, treasurer; Naoma 
Wheat, secretary. Membership 17. 

WILLING WORKERS— Edith Hevel, chairman; Mrs. F. W. Montgomery, treas- 
urer; Mrs. Ernest Houn, secretary. Membership 22. 

WILSONTON— Mrs. W. R. Weeks, chairman; Mrs. Effie Burkhart, treasurer; 
W. R. Weeks, secretary. Membership 38. 

LAST ACTIVE WAR WORK 

The last appearance of Labette County Chapter in parade was on July 4, 1919, 
when the entire county gave a HOME COMING DAY for the boys from service. 
Everything was free. Canteen workers served the big dinner. 



Seventy-three 



present $ffitrrs uf £\rft Crnss 

OFFICERS 



J. M. Kersey, Chairman 
Roy O'Brien, Vice Chairman 



Norman Riley, Secretary 
Kirby Rarton, Treasurer 



ROARR OF DIRECTORS 



0. Gossan!, Oswego. 
Mrs. J. F. Reily, Parsons 
Charles M. Doughman, Parsons 

1. N. Hinds, Mound Valley 

Rev. Alexander Hawke. Parsons 
J. M. Kersey, Parsons 
Roy F. O'Brien, Chetopa 
George Karr, Parsons 



W. H. Martin, Parsons 

Norman Riley, Parsons 

Kirby Rarton, Parsons 

T. E. Donnellan, Chairman of Publicity 

Mrs. J. F. Reily, Chairman of Nursing 

Service. 
Mrs. Rose Patrick, Chairman of Home 

Service Section. 



BRANCHES AND CHAIRMEN 



Oswego — Frank Proctor 
Chetopa— H. R. Huston 
Mound Valley — George Jepson 
Dennis — F. W. Johnson 
Bartlett— Grant Owens 



Valeda— \Y. S. Smith 
Altamont — Byron Dixon 
Angola— Mrs! H. B. Carr 
Fdna — Miss Laura Kesler 
Labette— L. Rude 




Gassed patients beinp taken to Field Hospital No. 326 in U. S. Ambulances. 
82nd and 89th Divisions. North of Royaumeix. France, Aupust 8. 1918. 



Patients are members of 



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ifttnto jRrfc GJroaa 

J. F. BARNHILL, FIRST CHAIRMAN 
Organized December 15, 1917; 2839 Members. 



WORK DONE 



Knitting — 

Sox. pairs 64 

Wristlets 93 

Scarfs 2 

Booties, pairs 6 

Sweaters 25 

Caps 17 

Helmets 1 

Sunshine Afghans 5 

Hospital Garments — 

Bed Coats 40 

Befugee Garments — 

Aprons 63 

Petticoats 401 

Chemise 2 

Complete Layettes 10 

Dresses 17 

Drawers 24 

Boys' Shirts 18 

Baby Comforts 10 

Salvage and Conservation — 

Tinfoil, pounds 265 

Nuts and Pits, pounds 2995 

Helped gather magazines and old paper. 



Miscellaneous Camp Supplies — 

Cheer Bags 100 

Gun Wipes 75,000 

Story books 110 

"Housewives" 84 

Shot Bags 5000 

Miscellaneous Hospital Supplies — 

Operating Caps 75 

Towels - 50 

Operating Leggings 17 

Bag Bugs 10 

Manuel Training — 

Packing Cases 50 

Splints 1500 

Bedside Tables 17 

Food Production — 

Had many gardens. 

Chapter Services — 

Each school had a messenger service 

and helped with unpacking at headquart- 
ers. 
Amount collected, S709.75. 

George Karr, present secretary. 






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Charles T. Main (overseas) 
F. E. Carson (overseas) 
C. C. Wilkins (camp Pike) 
Rev. B. E. Maclean (overseas) 



Dan Davis .Southern Camp) 
Harry Bane Boss (overseas) 
B. T. Stone (overseas) 






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The Labette County Y. W. C. A. was ready at all times to assist in the drives 
or other war work. The workers of the organization in the county are: 

Mrs. 0. M. Davis, County Chairman. 



Mrs. H. W. Morris, Oswego. 
Mrs. Alice Rude, Labette. 
Mrs. Grace Shults, Chetopa. 
Miss Theresa O'Brien, Bartlett. 
Miss Laura Kesler, Edna. 
Mrs. Harrv Beck, Altamont. 



Coma Chapman, Mound Valley. 
Mrs. Mamie Lugenbeal, Angola. 
Mrs. E. H. Peters, Edna. 
Mrs. Harry Van Vleck, (Camp Fire 
Girls) Parsons. 



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^.nights ni (Htflmttbus 



During the World War the Knights of Columbus, through their National Or- 
ganization carried on a most wonderful work of relief, both overseas among our 
boys and at home in the army camps, also civilian relief work. 

In Labette County the Knights of Columbus raised $6,000.00 for war work be- 
sides doing local civilian relief work. The officers during the war period were: 



G. A. Hayden, Grand Knight. 

F. L. Wolridge, Deputy Grand Knight. 

J. M. Dunlap, Chancellor. 



F. L. Carpenter, Financial Secretary. 
R. B. Abies, Treasurer. 
J. P. O'Connor, Warden. 



The Knights of Columbus have a membership of 260. 



POSTAL SERVICE 

Parsons was represented in the U. S. Army Postal Service in France by Charles 
B. Martin. Left for France May 15, 1918. Postmaster 92nd Division. Gassed near 
Metz. Wounded by Shrapnel in the Argonne. Arrived in America April 3, 1919, as a 
casual. 

ED. BERO— RED CROSS OVERSEAS 

Left home December 27, 1917. Returned February 19, 1919. 

Mr. Bero left a good business, a wife and daughter and paid his own expenses. 
He worked in the hospitals and trenches in France, helping "The Boys." 

GEORGE KARR— BED CROSS OVERSEAS 

Left home December 27, 1918. Returned February 19, 1919. 

Mr. Karr left a fine business and family to go to France — searcher for the Ameri- 
can Red Cross. Wounded twice. True American hero. 



THE RETURN OF THE REFUGEES 



They pick their way o'er the shell-pocked road 

As the evening shadows fall, 
A man and woman, their eyes a-g!eam 

With awe at war's black pall. 

The straggling strands of her snowy hair 
Are tossed in the wind's rude breath ; 

His frail form shakes as the whistling guests 
Sweep o'er the fields of death. 

With straining eyes, hearts beating fast. 

They seek to gaze ahead 
To where they left their little home 

When from the Hun they fled. 



'Neath the heights of a hill o'erlooking the vale. 
Half hid in a purple shade, 
The dim outline of the town comes to view, 
And they hasten down the glade. 

At last the town, the street, and home ! 

But God ! Can it be this ? — 
This pile of stones, this hideous bulk. 

This gaping orifice? 

The sun has set. The evening star 

Sends down its soothing light. 
Gone are the tears ; their hearts are strong — 

"For God, for France, and Right!" 



Seventy-six 




American Dressing Station in France 




Showing ways of Bending patients to the hospital. 137th Ambulance Company, Camp De Galbert, Alsace, 
Germany, August 31st, 1918. 



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H.AWRENCE BARRON 
2— ROSCOE WILSON 
3— EUGENE R. STEWART 
4 -EDMUND McCREARY 



5 -WALTER R. LINDSTROM 

6 -ALFRED BAKER CARPENTER 
7— JOSEPH L. STRICKLAND 

8— GEO. EARL MOLLENHOUR 



Seventy-eight 



SERGEANT ALFRED BAKER CARPENTER 
Enlisted December 14, 1917, at Joplin, Mo., in the Coast Artillery. Was sent first to St. Louis, Mo., 
then to Fort McArthur (California). Then to Fort Winfield Scott. Then sent to Fortress Monroe 
(Virginia). Then to Fort Screven (Georgia) where he became a part of the 75th Regular Artillery 
which left Camp Merritt about October 1st. 1918, for overseas service. On the way to France he con- 
tracted influenza and died of pneumonia while the ship rested in the harbor at Brest. France, October 
15, 1918. His remains were shipped back to this counti'y and buried at Oswego, November 3, 1918. He 
was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Carpenter and brother of John Carroll Carpenter, all who 
reside at Oswego, Kansas. 

WALTER RAY LINDSTROM 
Entered the service April 27, 1918. Received first training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Sailed for 
France with his Division June 3, 1918. Was assigned to Machine Gun Co. 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. 
In the Meuse-Argonne offensive, November 4th, 1918, he was severely wounded by shell tire and died 
November 7th, 1918. The American Legion Post at Oswego bears his name. He was the first Oswego boy 
killed in action. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Lindstrom, resides at Oswego, Kansas. 

EDMUND McCREARY 
Entered the service May 2S. 1918. Received his first training at Camp Funston I Kansasl and Camp 
Dodge (Iowa) was assigned to Company M. 351st Infantry, S8th Division. Left for Camp Mills I New 
York) August 6, 1918. After a short stay there went with his Division overseas. It was while he was 
stationed at the front lines that he contracted pneumoina and was taken back to a Base Hospital at 
Hericourt, France, where he died October 15, 1918. His remains were brought home and buried at Oswego 
with military honors. May 29, 1921. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will McCreary. reside at Oswego. Kansas. 

JOSEPH LEROY STRICKLAND 
Entered the service July 22, 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston I Kansas I. Assigned 
to Co. G. 70th Infantry. Died with influenza October 7, 1918 at Camp Funston (Kansasl. His parents. 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Strickland, reside near Oswego. Kansas. 

SERGEANT LAWRENCE PERCY BARRON 
Enlisted in the Regular Army January, 1912, Co. H, 2nd Regiment, Infantry, stationed at Jefferson 
Barracks (Missouri) and Schofield Barracks (Hawaii). September 6 ,1913, promoted to corporal. December 
11, 1914. promoted to sergeant, which position he held until the expiration of his enlistment. January. 1915. 
Enlisted in the Navy. December 4, 1917. Was stationed at Mare Island Navy Yards (San Francisco) until 
May. 1918, when assigned to the Ship Konigan de Nederlanden, which sailed through the Panama canal 
and going into port at Norfolk. Va. Leaving this port August 15, 1918. for France. When seven days out 
at sea he contracted bronchial pneumonia and died. Was buried at his home. Bartlett, Kansas. Parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. W. H. Barron, reside at Bartlett, Kansas. 

GEORGE EARL MOLLENHOUR 
Enlisted in the army. May 5, 1917. Received first training at Burlington, Kansas, and Camp 
Doniphan (Oklahoma). Assigned to Co. C, 137th Infantry. 35th Division. Went to Camp Mills, N. Y„ 
April 30. 1918. Sailed for France in May. 1918, via Liverpool. England. Was on the battle front in the 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, where on the morning of September 27. 1918, he was struck in the chest by a 
piece of shrapnel, wounding him severely. He died. A Hero, where he fell, before the stretcher 
bearers could carry him to the rear. His age was 21 years. 11 months and 11 days. His parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mollenhour. reside at Chetopa, Kansas. 

EUGENE REGNIER STEWART 
Entered the service August 24. 1918. Was assigned to Ambulance Co. and Field Hospital 24, Medi- 
cal Department at Fort Riley (Kansasl. From there he was sent to Camp Harry J. Jones (Douglas, 
Arizona) ; remained there until October 24, 1918. Then sent to Whipple Barracks (Prescott. Arizona), a 
few days after his arrival at Whipple Barracks he contracted bronchial pneumonia from which he 
died November 6, 1918. His remains were sent home and buried at Bartlett. His age was 22 years, 4 
months and 24 days. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Stewart, reside at Bartlett, Kansas. 

CORPORAL ROSCOE WILSON 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army May 3, 1917. Received his first training at Camp Doniphan (Oklahoma). 
On April 13, 1918, he was sent to Camp Mills. N. Y. After a few days there he sailed for France. On 
September 29, 1918. in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne he was severely wounded by flying shrapnel and 
died the following day in a hospital. He served his country 1 year and 5 months. His age was 29 
years, 6 months. His remains were brought back to Edna. October 9, 1921, and buried with military 
honors by the American Legion. The Post at Edna is named after him. His mother. Mrs. Rebecca B. 
Wilson, resides at Edna, Kansas. 



Seventy- nine 









1— WARREN H. WILLISON 
2-CHESTER G. UMPHENOUR 
3— WILLIAM C. BAXTER 
4-JOHN WILLIAM FOWLER 



5^CLYDE D. GARDNER 
6- JOSEPH CLARENCE STARTZ 
7— OSCAR ROLAND BERRY 
8— ARTHUR J. CHANSLER 



Eighty 



CLYDE D. GARDNER 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army April 11, 1918. Assigned to Co. "D," 66th Engineers. Served in France one 
year, was stationed at St. Florentine and Montaigis, France. During the return trip home he became 
ill and was sent to a hospital at Camp Dodge I Iowa I, from there to United States Army General 
Hospital No. 21. Denver, Colorado. At the latter hospital he improved and was to have been discharged 
February 7, 1920. On February 5, 1920, he contracted pneumonia and died February 12th. Was a charter 
member of the American Legion Post, William D. Davis, No. 34, Bunell, Colorado. Attended the public 
schools in Parsons. Was employed in the M., K. & T. Ry. boiler shops. Parsons, at the time of his en- 
listment. His parents. Elmer E. and Susie Garnder. reside in Parsons. Kansas. 

SERGEANT CHESTER G. UMPHENOUR 
Enlisted in the Regular Army July 1. 1916; was a member of Battery "C." 17th Field Artillery. 
Served in France and was in the thick of the struggle when killed in action. November 6, 1918, just five 
days before the armistice was signed. His mother, Mrs. A. E. Umphenour. resides in Parsons. Kansas. 
SERGEANT WARREN HENRY WILLISON 
Enlisted in the army February 5. 1918. Served with 31st Co.. Depot Brigade and Headquarters Co., 
354th Infantry, 89 th Division, at Camp Funston (Kansas I. Promoted to sergeant May 29, 1918. Left 
Camp Funston May 30, 1918, and landed in France June 21, 1918. Was in the battle fronts at St. Mihiel 
and later in the Argonne Forest drive, where he was killed in action, November 1, 1918. by a high ex- 
plosive shell. Was buried where he fell, later was reburied at the National Cemetery. Romane, France. 
Was brought back to the United States and buried at Erie, Kansas. October, 1921. His father. C. E. 
WilHson, resides at Muskogee, Okla. 

JOSEPH CLARENCE STARTZ 
Entered the service September 19, 1917. Received first training at Camp Funston I Kansas) and 
Camp Doniphan I Oklahoma I. Assigned to Co. "F." 110th Ammunition Train, 35th Division. Embarked for 
"overthere" May, 1918. Was taken sick on board ship with spinal meningitis and died May 25th. 1918. Was 
buried at sea. His mother, Mrs. Mary Startz, resides near Liberty, Kansas, and a brother. George Startz, 
lesides in Parsons, Kansas. 

OSCAR ROLAND BERttY 
Entered the service September 21. 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 
Headquarters Co., 353rd Infantry. 89th Division. Went overseas with Division June, 1918. Served in the 
St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive November 
5, 1918. Just six days before the armistice. His remains were brought home and buried October, 1921, 
with military honors, at Parsons, Kansas. His wife. Mrs. Ruby E. Berry, resides at Parsons. Kansas. 

WILLIAM CARL BAXTER 
Entered the service October 4, 1917. Was assigned to Co. "L." 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. Camp 
Funston (Kansas). While on furlough at Christmas. 1917, he contracted German measles and after three 
weeks at home returned to camp. In February, 1918, he was sent to an army hospital at Fort Riley to 
be treated for rheumatism, at which time he was taken down with spinal meningitis from which he died 
March 12, 1918. He was the first Labette County boy to give his life in the service. His remains were laid 
to rest at Powhatan. Kansas. His mother, Mrs. Jennie E. Baxter, resides at Waverly, Kansas. 

ARITHUR J. CHANSLER 
Entered the service June 23, 1918, was assigned to Headquarters Co.. 30th Field Artillery. Camp 
Funston I Kansas). Served at regimental tailor. Contracted pneumonia and died January 8. 1919, at 
Base Hospital. Fort Riley ( Kansas I. Buried January 10, with military honors at Carpenter Cemetery, 
Osage Township. Labette County, Kansas. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Chansler, reside at Dennis, 
Kansas. 

CORPORAL JOHN WILLIAM FOWLER 
Entered the service September 20, 1917. Received his first training at Camp Funston (Kansas) with 
Co. H. 30th Infantry. Sailed for overseas February, 1918. Was in active service from the beginning of 
the American participation. It was on the morning of October 9, 1918. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive 
that he was killed in action. His father. W. A. Fowler, resides at Edna. Kansas. 



IN FLANDERS FIELDS 



In Flanders fields the poppies blow 
Between the crosses, row on row. 

That mark our place ; and in the sky 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

We are the Dead. Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. 

Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In Flanders fields. 



Take up our quarrel with the foe. 
To you from failing hands we throw 

The torch : be yours to hold it high. 

If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 
In Flanders fields. 

— John McCrae. 
(Canadian Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, who 
died in his own hospital of pneumonia.) 



Eighty-one 








tftf&r* 




1— SERGEANT-MAJOR EARL C. MILLICAN 

2— LIEUTENANT DAVID W. McCAIN 

3— HAROLD L. CHANDLER 

4— SERGEANT ROBERT L. McCLAIN 



5— CURTIS ELDER BURRIS 
6— DAVID FRANK GOOD 
7— MISS LOURA DALE PERRY 
8— MRS. JOE GRAVES 



Eishty-two 



SERGEANT-MAJOR EARL CROCKETT MILLICAN 
Enlisted in the Aviation Branch of the service, December 29, 1917, at Kansas City, Mo. Was sent 
to Kelly Field I San Antonio, Texas) March, 1918. After reporting there was sent to the Western Coast 
for special Government service where he remained until May 18, 1918. Then entering the School of 
Military Aeronautics at Austin, Texas, he completed his course and received his diploma August 10, 1918. 
Was then sent to Camp Dick (Dallas, Texasl. In September, 1918, he was selected for some special air 
service in France. Leaving Camp Dick September 20, 1918, was sent to Garden City. N. Y. Immediately 
after his arrival at Garden City he was made Sergeant-Ma.ior and was preparing for the overseas service 
when on October 1, he took influenza which developed into pneumonia and he died October 13, 1918. His 
remains were brought home to Lockhart, Texas, and buried October 19, 1918. His father, John W. 
Millican, resides at Lockhart, Texas. 

LIEUTENANT DAVID W. McCLAIN 
Enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps December 21. 1911. Appointed Corporal July 17. 1913. Served 
on hoard the U. S. S. Rainbow, March 24, to December 23, 1914. During the year 1913, served in the 
Philippine Islands, and Peking, China. Was discharged from the service December 10. 1915. Later re- 
enlisted as a memher of the 67th Co., 5th Regiment. U. S. Marines, with rank of 1st Lieutenant. Went 
overseas in 1917 with General Pershing. Was in the thick of the fighting from the first of the United 
States' participation in World War. In the fiercest battle of the war— the engagement at Chateau- 
Thierry. France, was one of the thirty of his company who came out of the battle uninjured. Was decorated 
for bravery by King George of England, and personally awarded the French Croix de Guerre and cited for 
bravery by the Mashall of France in leading his section to the attack of a Machine Gun nest near St. 
Etienne a Arnes October 4, 1918. Was wounded in this charge and died from his wounds October 5, 1918, 
at the age of twenty-seven years, seven months and twenty-one days. His remains were brought home and 
buried with military honors at Parsons, Kansas, August 7. 1921. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mc- 
Clain. reside at McCune, Kansas. 

SERGEANT ROBERT L. McCLAIN 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army at Pitcher. Okla. Was sent to Camp Travis iTexasl. Assigned to Co. 
"A," 35Sth Infantry. Left for Camp Mills IN. Y.I June 9, 1918. Embarked from there June 20, 1918. for 
France, via England. Arrived in France July 7. 1918. Early in August was sent to the front, in the 
Ton! sector. From that time on was in the thick of the battle. In September. 1918, served in the Argonne 
sector. Was wounded September 26, 1918, while going over the top in the Argonne Forest and died Sep- 
tember 27, 1918. Aged twenty-two years, nine months and five days. Was buried in the National Cemetery 
at Toul, France. His remains were brought home and buried with military honors, at Parsons, Kansas,. 
August 7. 1921. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McClain, reside at McCune, Kansas. 

HAROLD L. CHANDLER 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army at San Antonio, Texas, August 15, 1917. Was assigned to 7th Service 
Co., Signal Corps, stationed at Fort Sam Houston ITexasl. Later was transferred to Camp Stanley (Texas) 
for training. While in this camp contracted pneumonia and was taken to the Base Hospital at Fort Sam 
Houston (T«xas). As a result of the sickness it was necessary to be operated on. which was done 
February 11, 1918. This operation did not relieve the condition and he underwent two more operations. 
After which he was disabled for active service and was discharged August 17, 1918. Continually growing 
worse he was sent to the U. S. Marine Hospital at St. Louis, Mo., where a fourth operation was performed, 
which apparently was a success. On November 25, 1918, signed up to take the Government Vocational 
Training and was sent to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Later was married at Ann Arbor, 
Mich. In December. 1915, he was again taken seriously ill. it being a renewal of the former condition of 
his lungs, and died January 9, 1920, and was buried at Battle Creek. Mich., where he is survived by his 
wife and one child (Harold Emery Chandler, who was born several months after his death). He was 
educated in the Parsons schools, graduating from the Parsons High School and taking a three-year course 
at the University of Kansas. His mother, Mrs. R. E. Chandler, resides at Parsons, Kansas. 

DAVID FRANK GOOD 
Entered the service June 1, 1917. Sent to Washington Barracks (Washington. D. C.I Assigned to 
Co. "F," Engineers, 1st Division. During entire period of service was in poor health, being confined to an 
army hospital at Fort Sheridan, when discharged September 19, 1920, and gradually declining until 
October 26, 1921, when he died in a hospital at Parsons, Kansas. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard 
Good reside near Parsons, Kansas. 

CURTIS ELDER BURRIS 
Enlisted in the U. S. Navy May 18. 1918, at Kansas City, Mo. In training at Great Lakes (111.) 
Served on the Battleship Arkansas during the war. Was relieved from active service May 26, 1919. Re- 
turned home May 27, 1917, and was killed by a train at Chetopa, Kansas, six days later (June 2, 19191. He 
had one brother, Cecil Burris, who enlisted in the Army seven days (April 13, 1917) after the United 
States entered the World War, who with a widowed mother, Mrs. Lottie B. Burris, reside at Mound Valley, 
Kansas. 



Eighty-three 




1-MRS. ELSIE HELLWIG MOORE 
2— MRS. GEORGE B. YOUNG 
3— MRS. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB 
4— MISS VESTA SMITH 



5— MRS. FRANCES REYNOLDS 
6— MISS CORA M. MARSHALL 
7— MISS CORA SMITH 
8— MISS ELLA W. DRESSER 



Eighty-four 



MRS. JOE GRAVES 
From the time the Labette County Chapter Red Cross was organized Mrs. Graves was active in the 
Surgical Dressing Department, giving practically all of her time to this work and taking' a leading part 
in other branches of Red Cross activities during the World War. 

MISS LOURA DALE PERRY 

Began active war work soon after the United States entered the world conflict. Working with the 
Women's Navy League until the organization of the Labette County Chapter, American Red Cross, for 
which she had heen an enthusiastic worker. After its organization and the establishing of work rooms 
she took an active part in the making of surgical dressings. Having been appointed chairman of the 
Military Relief Committee Miss Perry began an energetic campaign to raise money for the building of a 
Canteen in Parsons, which resulted in the erecting of the Canteen "Hut" early in 1918. Miss Perry con- 
tinued in the canteen work until her departure to Topeka, where she now resides. 

MRS. FRANCES REYNOLDS 
When the Labette County Chapter Red Cross decided that a Canteen in Parsons was very necessary 
to the comfort and welfare of the boys going into the service, Mrs. Reynolds actively assisted in that 
branch of the work, being Assistant Commandant from its start, later Chairman of Canteen work. And 
through the splendid management of this branch of the Red Cross, and the fine co-operation of its 
workers the people of Parsons are known from coast to coast for their wonderful hospitality. 

MISS ELSIE CATHERINE HELLWIG 

When the United States entered the World War, was active in war work at home, until in August, 
1918, entered the Medical Department of the U. S. Army as Dietitian. On August 20. 1918, was assigned 
to the Base Hospital at Camp Shelby (Miss. I On February 12, 1919, was transferred to the U. S. Army 
General Hospital No. 39. at Long Beach, Long Island, N. Y. Was transferred then on March 19, 1919, to 
U. S. Army General Hospital No. 19 in North Carolina where she remained in continous service until 
April 3, 1920. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

MRS. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB 
Always active in the Red Cross work from the time of organization of the Labette County Chapter 
and realizing the importance of a Canteen Service well maintained for the comfort of "our boys" passing 
through Parsons, took up this branch of the service. Having been appointed Captain of the Thursday team, 
and continued in this capacity until the Canteen was closed. Present residence. Parsons, Kansas. 

MISSES CORA AND VESTA SMITH 
The teachers of Parsons were from the very beginning busy doing war *vork in almost every capacity. 
Even though busily occupied with their school duties during the week days*, rfave their evenings and Sun- 
days to the Red Cross work. The Sunday team of the Parsons Canteen was composed of teachers, headed 
by Miss Cora and Vesta Smith as Captains. 

MISS ELLA W. DRESSER 
Was in training as a nurse at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, when the United States entered 
the World War. Upon the completion of her course was sent to France as a Red Cross nurse, being 
overseas more than a year, a great deal of the time being stationed on the front, facing hardships and 
dangers until the "big job" was finished. Present residence is Hawaii. Her mother, Mrs. C. E. Gehhardt, 
resides at Chetopa. Kansas. 

MISS CORA M. MARSHALL. R. N. 
At all times active in Red Cross work, especially Home Hygene and the care of the sick, which 
she did during the war period. Also working in the Surgical Dressing Department. Not realizing the 
coming need for nurses, the Labette County Chapter did not have a Chairman of this department until' 
June, 1918, when Miss Marshall was appointed chairman. Beginning on June 5. 1918, with only three 
eligible nurses in Parsons, Miss Marshall, through her active campaign reported on October 8, 1918, that 
there were seventy-five nurses in Labette County holding diplomas, most all of whom offered their services, 
which, on account of the influenza epidemic then pending were badly needed for home service. Present 
address. Wichita. Kansas. 

MRS. GEORGE B. YOUNG 

As a member of the Monday Team and later Captain of the Saturday Team of the Parsons Canteen 
during the World War and afterward the home coming of "our boys." Mrs. Young had opportunity for 
observing the wonderful service of this branch of the Red Cross, and was always an enthusiastic and 
loyal worker in the thought that the boys were appreciative and deserving of this effort. 



Eighty- five 




1— MRS. BELLE EMERY 
2- MRS. E. W. BOARDMAN 
3 -MRS. J. M. KERSEY 

4 — MRS. J. F. REILY 



5 MRS. H. A. MEDARIS 
6— MISS LAURA ARBEGAST 

7 MRS. G. W. GADDIS 

8 -MRS. ROSA PATRICK 



Eighty-six 



MRS. E. W. BOARDMAN 
Before organization of the Labette County Chapter. Red Cross, war wor.k was done by the Women's 
Navy League in which Mrs. Boardman was always active. Real production began when the workrooms 
were established and squads selected for the different days of the week. Mrs. Boardman being chosen 
as instructor for the knitting departments, serving three days a week in this work. Being appointed 
city chairman of the Conservation Department that work began early and in earnest, a few items of 
their work was the gathering of thousands of pounds of clothing for the destitute families of Belgium, 
linen for the Red Cross hospitals in France, fruit pits and nut shells for the manufacture of carbon for 
gas masks, tinfoil and platinum, magazines and old papers. When the Parsons Canteen was established 
Mrs. Boardman took an active part in that branch of the Red Cross work. Like a great many of our 
women folk, Mrs. Boardman was from the beginning of the war willing and ready to do anything that 
would add to the comfort of "our boys" in the service and those dependent upon them. 

MRS. J. F. REILY 
Labette County Chapter were indeed fortunte in the fact that they did not have to wait weeks after 
organization to have the proper teacher in the Surgical Dressing Department. As Mrs. Reily had only 
recently moved to Parsons after doing months of such Red Cross work in St. Louis, and taking charge 
of this department the work on surgical dressings began just twelve days after the Chapter was organized, 
being assisted by many faithful and devoted workers this department continued actively until the con- 
clusion of hostilities, having made 189.850 surgical dressings. Mrs. Reily visited other cities in the interest 
of the Chapter at her own expense. During the influenza emidemic Mrs. Reily served as chairman of the 
Nursing Relief Committee and was untiring in her work during these trying days. At present Mrs. 
Reily is chairman of the Division Activities and doing a fine work among the needy of this vicinity. 

MRS. ROSA PATRICK 

Chairman Civilian Relief Committee since the organization of the Red Cross. The Home Service 
Section of this branch was the division most active during the war. Members of the committee who 
gave freely of their services were Mrs. E. D. Matsler, C. A. Doughman, and M. A. Arnett. After the 
Peace Time program was adopted, the following were added: Miss Kate Ferguson, Mrs. W. H. Martin. 
Mrs. C. M. Hoes, and Mrs. W. C. McKee, who had charge of City Relief. The giving of financial aid 
formed only a minor part of the work of the committee during war times. Assisting to secure delayed 
allotments and allowances, making application for allowance for children born after the father entered the 
service, trying to get mail through to service men and from them to their families, visiting bereaved 
families, making affidavits for securing discharged of men whose home conditions had changed, investi- 
gating claims for discharge, securing lists of names of men in service, casualties, etc. After the signing 
of the armistice the character of service changed, but has continued to the present time. It has in- 
cluded making claim for back pay, assisting in making claims for compensation, admission to hospitals, 
bonuses, the dilference between 3 1 /-. cent and 5 cent travel pay, helping to trace men missing from their 
homes, assisting stranded soldiers to their homes, and thier families to join them when they secured 
positions in other places. 

MRS. J. M. KERSEY 

Took an active part in the organization of Red Cross Chapter for Labette County, also taking part 
in the Belgian Relief work which consisted of gathering clothing, etc., for the destitute and war ridden 
people of Belgium. When the Parsons Canteen "Hut" was erected and teams selected for conducting the 
work Mrs. Kersey became a member of the Monday team, continuing in this service until the closing of the 
Canteen late in 1.919. 

MRS. H. A. MEDARIS 

With tihe organization of the Labette County Chapter, Red Cross, was selected as a member of the 
first Executive Committee, having been an ardent worker for a Red Cross Chapter in Parsons, and con- 
tinuing to do everything: possible to further the work. Having charge of Women's Work and a member 
of the Conservation Committee which did such fine work in Labette County, and also many other important 
features of the Red Cross work. 

MRS. B. W. GADDIS 

Like many other Parsons women did everything possible to add to the comfort of "our boys." 
Tuesday, the entire day, being set aside for sewing for the Red Cross. When the Canteen was completed 
was appointed Captain of the Wednesday team and continued in that capacity until the Canteen was closed. 

MRS. BELLE EMERY 

From the time it was decided to have a Canteen in Parsons, was active in assisting with this 
branch and when the "Hut" was completed and the "boys" passing through Parsons found an always 
well supplied and splendidly maintained Canteen, was one of the workers in this department who as- 
sisted continuously until the Canteen was closed. At the present is doing visiting, social and general 
welfare work for the Red Cross. 

MISS LAURA ARBBGAST 
Always an enthusiastic worker and taking an active part in the organization of the Red Cross work- 
rooms. Being appointed chief assistant in the Surgical Dressing work had charge of purchasing of 
supplies in this department, and taking part in other branches of Red Cross work during the war. 



Eighty-seven 




1--LIEUTENANT HARRY E. OABRIEL 
2— LIEUTENANT AMBA C. MANN 
3— MAJOR E. W. KOONTZ 
4— LIEUTENANT PIERRE M. KIMBALL 



5— CAPTAIN R. C. MEEK 
6— WEBSTER W. KIMBALL 
7— CAPTAIN CLARENCE WITT 
8— CAPTAIN CHARLES D. STEELE 



Eighty-eight 



LIEUTENANT PIERRE M. KIMBALL 

Organized Motor Truck Co. No. 10, which consisted of men from Parsons, Oswego and Chetopa, 'n 
-July. 1917. In August. 1917, Motor Truck Co. No. 10 was consolidated with and was known ae Truck 
No. 2; a part of the 117th (all Kansas! Ammunition Train, 42nd iRainbowl Division. With this Division, 
Lieutenant Kimball was stationed at Camp Mills. Lone Island. N. Y., where for three months they were 
in vigorous training. Sailing from Hoboken, N. J., October 31. 1917, for service in France. During the 
voyage were attacked by enemy submarines, however, without loss. On the arrival in France was sta- 
tioned at Camp Coetquidan for more training behind the lines. On February 27, 1918, went into the 
front lines in the Luneville sector. And from that time on was in active front line service, taking part in 
the Baccarat sector. Champagne sector, the famous Marne and Chateau-Thierry defensive I where the 
American boys saved the day I, the St. Mihiel and Meusc-Argonne offensives and after the signing of the 
Armistice went with the regiment to Germany in the Army of Occupation. Present address, Parsons, 
Kansas. 

CAPTAIN RICHARD C. MEEK 
Enlisted April 9, 1917. Sent to Officers Training Camp, Fort Riley. May 15, 1917. Commissioned 
2d Lieutenant August, 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant July, 1918. Commissioned Captain, August, 
1918. With 164th Depot Brigade August, 1917, to August. 1918. Organized and commanded Co. H 69th 
U. S. Infantry, August. 1918, to October. 1918. Commanded Co. A. 41st U. S. Infantry. October. 1918, 
to November. 1918. Commanded 15th Battalion, 164th Depot Brigade. November, 1918, to December. 1918. 
Bayonet instructor 10th Division August. 1918. to October, 1918. Member 89th Division football team 
1917. Captain and coach 10th Division football team, 1918. Discharged December 4. 1918. Delegate, 
Parsons Post No. 56, American Legion, Stj.te Convention at Wichita, 1919 ; Pittsburg. 1920 ; Hutchinson, 
1921. Department Executive Committeeman. 1919 ; National Executive Committeeman. 1921 ; Alternate 
National Executive Committeeman, 1920. Commander Parsons Post No. 56, American Legion. 1921. 
Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

WEBSTER W. KIMBALL 

April, 1917, applied for admission to first Officers Training Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. August 
27. 1917, entered second Officers Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 111. ; completed course of instruction. 
December 14. 1917. enlisted in aviation branch of U. S. Naval Reserve Force at Base No. 6, New York 
City. December 31, 1917, detailed to Pensacola, Florida, for active duty. January, 1918, transferred to 
naval base at Hampton Roads, Va., for further duty. July, 1918, detached and sent to Naval Aviation 
Training School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., for instruction. November 
26, 1919, released from active duty in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, May, 1920, honorably discharged. 
Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CAPTAIN CLARENCE WITT 

Enrolled in the first Officers Training Camp at Fort Roots (Little Rock, Arkansas I May 10, ltllT_ 
Commissioned Captain of Infantry August 15. 1917. Assigned to duty with the 32nd Division at Waco,. 
Texas. October 30, 1917, transferred to 39th Division at Camp Beauregard I La. I in command of Co. 
M. 153rd Infantry. Arrived overseas August 18. 1918. After the armistice was assigned to duty at 
Brest, France, until June 20, 1919. Discharged at Hoboken, N. J.. June 29. 1919. Present address. 
Parsons, Kansas. 

CAPTAIN CHARLES D. STEELE 

Enlisted July 15, 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Artillery July 17. 1917. Assigned to 
duty with 117th Ammunition Train, 42nd Division (Rainbow). Sailed from New York for France, 
October 31. 1917. Transferred to Adjutant General Department Base Headquarters. Base Section 1. A. 
E. F.. February 20. 1918. Commissioned Captain A. S. C. February 15th, 1919. Discharged June 14, 1919, 
Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

MAJOR E. W. KOONTZ 

Was with the 314th Ammunition Train. 89th Division. Stationed at Camp Funston (Kansas) 
pending orders to sail for France. Landed in France June. 1918. and was stationed at Camp de Souge 
until the Division was ordered into the battle aera. Participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne 
offensives and in the occupation of Germany. Returned to United States with the Division. Still has a 
commission as Major F. A.. U. S. A. Present residence. 2355 Emerson St.. Denver, Colo. 

LIEUTENANT AMBA C. MANN 

Enlisted in Co. F. 14th Infantry, U. S. A., March 28, 1899. Sent to Manila. Phillipine Islands. 
May 29, 1899. Participated in battles, skirmishes and expeditions during 1899. With China Relief 
Expedition. 1900. In battle of Pie Tsang, China. August 5. 1900. Battle of Yang Tsun. August 6. 1900. 
Battle and capture of Pekin. China, August 14, 1900. Battle and capture of Gates and Wall. Pekin. 
China (Imperial City I August 15, 1900. Returned to Manila from China, November 14, 1900. Arrived 
in United States from Manila, August 21, 1901. Visited Nagasaka, Yokohoma and Tokio, Japan. Honolulu 
and Hawaii. Discharged at Fort Snelling I Minn. I, March 27, 1902. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 
54th Engineers, U. S. Army, August 5, 1918. Sailed for France. August 24. 1918. Railroad transporta- 
tion officer for 34th Division, in France, September 15, to November 30, 1918. Then assigned to 65th 
Engineers as assistant master mechanic. June 20. 1919. assigned for duty with 52nd T. C. and left 
France for United States, arriving home July 2. 1919. Dicharged at Camp Upton (New York). July 10. 
1919. Post Commander Veterans of Foreign Wars. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



Eighty-nine 




1— CAPTAIN CHESTER R. MILHAM 
2— CAPTAIN GEORGE R. WHITE 
3— LIEUTENANT RUSSELL F. MILHAM 
4— LIEUTENANT ALVA C. WIMMER 



5— CAPTAIN GEORGE A. LANDES 
6 LIEUTENANT NORMAN B. FALL 
7— LIEUTENANT JOHN W. TINDER 
8— LIEUTENANT RAYMOND CAMPBELL 



Ninety 



LIEUTENANT HARRY E. GABRIEL 
Enlisted in the Spanish- American War July 8, 1898. Assigned to the Signal Corps Service and sent 
to Washington, D. C. Advanced to Corporal, then Sergeant. Served in the Phillipines, Porto Rica and 
Cuba. Discharged when peace was declared and Volunteer Army disbanded in November, 1898, 

Enlisted in the Army when the United States entered the World War. Commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant of Engineers. After a short period of training at Fort Leavenworth I Kansas) was assigned 
to 21st Engineers, at Camp Grant (Illinois). Sailed from New York with regiment December 26, 1917. 
Landed in France January 10, 1918. Was severely injured on the trip "over there." Confined to Naval 
Hospital at Brest. France, until April, 1918 : later sent to Paris, France. Joined his regiment at Sorcv. 
Meuse, April 16th. 1918. Participated in first real engagement that night when the Germans attempted 
to run the men of the 29th Division out of their trenches near Xivery en Marve, The Germans were 
repulsed with heavy losses. From April 18. 1918, to close of the war participated in the battles at 
Baccaret, Mandres. Beaumont, Belleville Flirey, Sichprey, and the St. Mihiel offensive, going as far as 
St. Benoit. Thiacourt. Pannes and Bouillonville. On October 2, 1918, was ordered to accompany the 
troops of the 1st Army into the Meuse-Argonne and participated in the battles of Montfaucon. Cierges, 
Homange, Londre. St. George, Avacourt. Esnnes. going into the Dun-sur- Meuse. Bruielles and across the 
Meuse. Returned to the United States June 10, 1919. Discharged July 5, 1919. Present address, 1065 
McLemore Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

LIEUTENANT RAYMOND CAMPBELL 

Enlisted in first Officers' Training Camp, Fort Riley (Kansas) May 12. 1917. Commissioned 2nd 
Lieutenant, Field Artillery, U. S. Army. August 15, 1917. Assigned to Battery "C," 340th Field Artillery. 
89th Division. Camp Funston (Kansas). September 2. 1917. Sailed for overseas June 12, 1918. Entered 
School of Fire. Camp de Souge, France, August 15. 1918. Entered St. Mihiel sector September 16. 1918. 
Participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Went with 89th Division in the occupation 
of Germany. Detailed as instructor in Divisional Agricultural School. Hermeskeil. Germany, February 26. 
1919. Returned to United States June 11. 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston iKansasl. June 29, 1919. 
Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

LIEUTENANT RUSSELL F. MILHAM 

Enlisted June 3. 1917, in 1st Kansas Cavalry as Sergeant. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant June, 1917. 
Graduated from Balloon School (Omaha, Neb. I May 3. 1918. Sailed for overseas May 30, 1918. Battle 
engagements: Vosges sector, August 23 to September 6. 1918; St. Mihiel sector September 7 to September 
12, 1918; Meuse-Argonne September 26 to October 9. 1918: Sommoedeau sector October 12 to 17, 1918. 
One gold wound chevron authorized. One gold war service chevron authorized. 
CAPTAIN CHESTER RICHARD MILHAM 

Enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps August 28, 1917, at St. Louis, Mo. Served in France with the 
American Expeditionary Force during the World War. Present address. Santa Barbara. California. 

LIEUTENANT JOHN W. TINDER 

Enlisted in Medical Corps, U. S. Army. July 10, 1917. Sent to Fort Riley (Kansas), August 10. 1917. 
Then sent to Camp Cody (New Mexico I, September 10. 1917. for service in Base Hospital in Division of 
Head Surgery. February. 1918. was attached to 109th Sanitary Train, with which was sent to Camp Dix 
(N. J.I August, 1918. Remaining there six weeks preparatory to going overseas. Sailed October 12. 1918, 
arriving in Liverpool, England, October 24. Landed at La Harve. France. November 2. From La Halve 
was sent to Nantes, France, to take charge of Convalescent Camp. This camp being abandoned, was sent 
to Bordeaux, France, remaining there until returning to America, July. 1919. Stationed at Camp Dix (N. 
J.I, for two months examining discharged troops. September, 1919, was sent to Fort D. A. Russell (Cheyenne. 
Wyo. I, in charge of eye. ear, nose and throat work. Later was sent to Camp Bragg (N. Car.), remaining 
there until discharged from the service, November 30, 1920. Present address. Indianapolis, Indiana. 

LIEUTENANT ALVA C. WIMMER 

Entered the service September 19. 1917. Sent to Camp Travis (Texas). Assigned to Headquarters 
Co.. 358th Infantry. 90th Division. Promoted to Corporal, then Sergeant, then to 1st Sergeant. Sailed 
for France June 20. 1918. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry November 11th, 1918. Discharged 
from the service July 11, 1919, at Camp Pike I Arkansas I. Present address. Tulsa. Oklahoma. 

CAPTAIN GEORGE A. LANDES 

Entered the service and commissioned Captain February 7. 1918. Assigned to Medical Officers 
Training Camp at Camp Greenleaf, Chickamauga Park I Ga. ). After four weeks was transferred to 
General Hospital No. 14, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.. as ophthalmologist. Also did special work on plastic 
surgery of the head and face. Just one day before the signing of the armistice was ordered to go to 
Hoboken. N. J., to embark for overseas. These orders were revoked on account of conclusion of the war. 
Discharged at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga., December 20, 1918. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

LIEUTENANT NORMAN B. FALL 

Enlisted in Medical Corps, U, S. Army. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant December 4, 1917. Active 
service at Fort Riley I Kansas), Jefferson Barracks (Mo. I, Del Rio. Texas, Base Hospital at Camp Bowie 
(Texas) and Fort Sill (Oklahoma). Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

CAPTAIN GEORjGE R. WHITE 

Entered the service June 30. 1918. Assigned to the Base Hospital at Kelly Field (San Antonio. 
Texas). Previous to entering the service in the Army was from the beginning of the war active in all 
branches of "Home Service" work. Red Cross, County Council of Defense, Liberty Bond drives, and any 
service that would promote greater Americanism and add more comfort to "our boys." Discharged from 
the service January 13. 1920. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



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1 ROBERT E. MACLEAN 
2— CAPTAIN GEORGE KARR 
3 CAPTAN PAUL CHRISTMAN 
4— CAPTAIN ED. BERO 



5— B. T. STONE 

6 -LIEUTENANT MILLARD KOHLER 

7— LIEUTENANT C. N. PETTY 

8— CAPTAIN JOHN C. CORNELL 



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CAPTAIN ED BERO 

When the United States entered the World War. having passed the age of military participation, 
offered his services — time and money- to his country's call. Became an enthusiastic war worker in all 
branches of home service, especially the Red Cross. Not content to see others accepted and sent overseas, 
he decided to "go over" at his own expense, that he might be of greater service to those in arms who were 
struggling in the trenches in the cause of humanity and democracy. On March 30, 1918, he left for 
France, leaving a good business, his wife and daughter and went at his own expense. His father was a 
native Belguim and he speaking the French language fluently was doubly welcome by the Red Cross, 
spreading good cheer and encouraging "the boys" in the hospitals, rest camps, front lines and any place 
he could do good. He was sleeping in an open field, bunked with George Karr, when a bomb from a 
German Airmen burst nearby, blowing them out of bed. Fortuntely, he was uninjured. His cheerful 
personality, genial smile and willing hand especially adapted him for this service. Returned home February 
24, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CAPTAIN GEORGE KARR 

Was from the entrance of the United States in the World War active at all times in war work. 
When the Red Cross Chapter was organizezd for Labette County took an important part in its organiza- 
tion, serving as the first secretary I until his departure for France). In the thought that he could 
be of more service to the country and add more comfort and cheer to the "boys" in the service, decided to 
SO overseas. Sailing for France Decmber 27, 1917. to bcome a Searcher with the American Red Cross, 
which took him right up to the front lines, where he was constantly under enemy fire. In July, 1917, 
while sleeping in an open field was seriously wounded by a bomb dropped from a "Hun's" airplane. After 
remaining in a hospital a short time returned to the front lines where he did bis utmost for the comfort 
of our boys. He left a comfortable home and a fine business and paid all of his expenses. After being 
wounded the second time and unable to do further work returned home and was discharged February 19, 
1919. 

ROBERT E. MACLEAN 

Was pastor of the First Methodlist Episcopal Church when he was called overseas as Religious 
Secretary for work among the Chinese Labor Battalions in France, in the summer of 1918. Having been 
a missionary in China for eight years he had peculiar qualifications for the work, and was appointed 
to Calais, France, the largest and most important Chinese camp in the British Army, before leaving 
Parsons. With hosts of others, there was long delay in procuring the necessary passports, so it was 
not until December 2, 1918, that he sailed for France, arriving at Calais on Christmas day of that year. 
The demobilization of the Chinese Labor Battalions having begun in the very early spring of 1919, and 
the arrival of numbers of workers from the mission fields of China, it was possible for him to return to 
his church in Parsons, being honorably discharged from the service April 18, 1919. 

CAPTAIN JOHN C. CORNELL 

Organized Field Hospital No. 2, Kansas, and mustered into State Service May 31, 1917. In com- 
mand till July 15, 1917 ; mustered into Federal Service August 5, 1917 ; detached duty August fi, 1917, 
to August 22. 1917, Coffeyville, Kansas. Co. A, 3rd Kansas Infantry, and Troop D, 1st Kansas Cavalry. In 
command Field Hospital No. 140, former Kansas No. 2, from August 23. 1917, to November 10, 1917. 
Adjutant Field Hospital 140, December 10, 1917, to March 20, 1918. Overseas School Detachment March 
20. 1918. enroute to France. Sailed March 29. 1918; arrived Brest April 13, 1918; detailed instruction 42nd 
Division. April 24, 191S. to May 3, 1918. Detailed for duty with British 3rd Army. 30th Division. 98th Field 
Ambulance, from May 9, 1918, to June 12, 1918. Rejoined Division June 12. 1918. 140th Field Hospital, 
until July 8th. transferred Field Hospital 137 and placed in command detachment Field Hospital 139 
Ambulance Co. 140. Operated Hospital Le Menel till July 26th. July 2fith in charge of detachment 138th 
Co., 137th Field Hospital, 1 platoon. 115th Eng. till August 24, 1918. at Kruth, Vosges. Returned Field 
Hospital 137 in St. Mihiel I Reserve) until September 25, 1918. Appointed Assistant Division Surgical 
Shock Officer. Served in this capacity till October 3, 1918, through Argonne offensive. Promoted to 
Captain November 14, 1918. Returned to Field Hospital 137 for duty until February 24, 1919. Transferred 
110th Field Signal Battalion as Regimental Surgeon. Served as surgeon 110th Field Signal Battalion until 
May 24, 1919, when mustered out with Division. 

LIEUTENANT C. N. PETTY 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant Medical Corps. 15th Division September 24. 1918. Was stationed at 
Camp Logan (Houston, Texas). Discharged from the service December 10, 1918. Previous to entering the 
service was active in war work at home where he has resided for twenty-five years. At this time is 
Post Commander American Legion at Altamont, also Chairman County Committee, American Legion. 
Present address, Altamont, Kansas. 

CAPTAIN PAUL CHRISTMAN 
Commissioned Captain Medical Corps. X3. S. Army, September 13, 1917. Assigned to Surgical Section. 
Base Hospital, Fort Riley ( Kansas). March 23. 1918, was transferred to Jefferson Barracks I St. Louis, 
Mo.) in the Surgical Section. Base Hospital. Discharged from service December 11. 1918. Present address, 
Wichita, Kansas. 

LIEUTENANT MILLARD KOHLER 

Enlisted July 1, 1917, with Motor Co. No. 10, Kansas Ammunition Train. Second enlistment, re- 
ported at Fort Logan I Colo. ) Transferred to 115th Cavalry and stationed at Fort D. A. Russell I Cheyenne, 
Wyo.), then transferred to Officers' Training School at Camp Pike I Ark.'). Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 
of Infantry October 15, 1918, and stationed at Camp Sherman (Ohio). Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 



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1 1>R. E. W. HOARDMAN 

2 DR. J. M. KERSEY 

3 DF,. S. A. MUNNEKE 
1 GEORGE T. HOWSER 



5 JOHN F. BARNHILL 

6 .1. F. STEELE 

7— WILLIAM T. NELIGH 
8—0. GOSSARD 



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DR. E. W. BOARDMAN 
When the United States entered the World War Dr. Boardman offered his services to the Govern- 
jnent in any capacity. The military age limit being a harrier in the combat branch of the service, he 
went into the war work at home from the start. Doing welfare work, taking part in the Liberty Loan 
■drives, doing civilian relief work, encouraging greater Americanism, cheering the "boys" who were leaving 
for the service, keeping the spirit of home folk alive, assisting and co-operating with public health officials, 
and when the Labette County Chapter, American Red Cross, was organizezd was one of the active workers, 
being elected the first chairman of the Chapter and continuing in that capacity until 1920, during which 
time he gave practically all of his time to the Red Cross and other war work, not only being the directing 
head of practically all the Red Cross work but actively engaged in its execution, especially civilian relief, 
organizing branches and auxiliaries, conducting the various drives, assisting in the Canteen work, directing 
the nursing department during the influenza epidemic, conducting memorial services and any other help 
that would promote the war work in this community. 

DR. J. M. KERSEY 

When the United States entered the World War Dr. Kersey offered his services to the Government 
in any capacity that would assist in downing the Kaiser, being especially desirous of entering the service 
as Chaplain. After weeks of waiting, he went to Fort Riley, Kansas, hoping that through the assistance 
of Army officer friends, he would succeed in securing the appointment. However, the set rules of the Army 
regarding age limits for combat service could not be overcome and he was denied the privilege of serving 
his country in a capacity that he was unusually well qualified to fill. Unsuccessful in his one ambition 
Dr. Kersey returned to Parsons undaunted and entered actively into the war work at home. Taking part 
in all drives, assisting in Red Cross activities of all kinds, especially in the Conservation Department where 
the Labette County Chapter rendered a fine account in gathering clothing for the Belguim destitute, he 
being county chairman of the committee. The crowning effort of Dr. Kersey was his masterful oration 
at the first Memorial service for our departed Heroes, held at Oswego, Kansas, September 29. 1918, at 
which practically the entire population of Labette County attended. With the ending of the war Dr. 
Kersey continued in active peace time Red Cross work and is chairman of the Labette County Chapter at 
the present time. 

O. GOSSARD 

Taking up the war work in Labette County at the very first, Mr. Gossard had a great deal to do 
in organizing the various branches of home service in the county. Being appointed Chairman of the County 
Council of Defense he organized not only each town in the county but had live working organizations in 
every school district. As the war progressed and greater effort on the part of every citizezn was neces- 
sary Mr. Gossard cheerfully gave up his business to give all of his time to aiding the Government in 
winning the war, accepting the chairmanship of the Fuel Administration, Food Administration, Liberty 
Bond and Baby Bond drives, all of which were 100 per cent conducted. In the Liberty and Baby Bond 
■drives Labette County far exceeded its quotas. Under the County Council of Defense Administration the 
work of creating a greater Americanism, greater savings, more production and less slacker ism (there 
was but little in Labette County) was very successfully executed. Besides being the directing head of 
these organizations in the county. Mr. Gossard took an active part in the Red Cross work, and is at this 
time a member of the Executive Board of the Labette County Chapter and doing peace time work in the 
community. Mr. Gossard resides at Oswego, Kansas. 

J. F. BARNHILL 

When the Junior Branch of the Labette County Chapter. Red Cross, was organized early in December, 
1917. Mr. Barnhill was appointed chairman, and soon had this branch actively engaged in doing war work. 
They participated in every drive for the Red Cross war funds and Liberty and Baby Bonds, made boxes 
for the Red Cross, assisted in making garments for the destitute in Belgium and did valuable work in 
assisting the Conservation Department. Mr. Barnhill, being Superintendent of the Parsons Schools, intro- 
duced and directed thrift among the pupils, encouraged conservation and economy with the result the 
Parsons Schools purchased more Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps than in any city its size in the State. 
Mr. Barnhill was active in every war activity in the community. 

J. F. STEELE 

Was one of the war workers in this community that was ready at all times to assist in putting 
Labette County "over the top" 100'^. Being in the banking business especially adapted him for work in 
the Liberty Loan and Red Cross war fund drives of which he rendered valuable assistance. 

WILLIAM T. NELIGH 

From the entrance of the United States in the World War until its conclusion was actively engaged 
in doing war work. Assisting the Red Cross, taking part in the Liberty Bond and Red Cross war fund 
drives and County Council of Defense and other war activities. 

REV. STADO A. MUNNEKE, D. D, 
Like a great many of our ministers. Dr. Munneke realized early in the war the importance of 
keeping the morale among our home folks in high spirits as well as among the boys in the service. With 
this in mind there were few Sundays, in his sermons, during the war that he did not try in some way 
to put courage and determination in the hearts of the people and a just pride they should feel in having 
sons serve their country in the great American Army that was fighting for the cause of humanity. Dr. 
Munneke also spent a great deal of his time in speaking for the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. and assisted 
in the work of the Legal Advisory Board in this county. 



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1— CLAUDE H. ERVIN 
2— C. V. COGGINS 
3— CECIL BURRIS 
4— HOWARD G. CAVE 



5 GEORGE F. JEPSON 
6- JOSEPH F. SHAFFER 
7— LEONARD RUDE 
8— ROY BARNETT 



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GEORGE T. HOWSER 
General Secretary Y. M. C. A., Parsons, Kansas, during the war period. Co-operated with all agencies 
for providing funds for welfare work with soldiers "at home and over there." Aided in all sales of 
Government bond issues. Member of State Personnel Board of the Y. M. C. A. to aid in securing men 
for overseas walfare work. Executive of the Board of Directors of the local Y. M. C. A. who tendered 
the recruits the use of "Y" privileges and building during entire encampment period in Parsons. Was 
Train Secretary out of Parsons for soldiers enroute to cantonments, north, south and east, traveling several 
thousand miles. Speaker at "Y" meetings in cantonments in Kansas. Texas and California. Co-operated 
with Parsons Chapter of Red Cross in Canteen work, especially on trains approaching Parsons, and on 
depot platforms. Aided also in financial campaigns. Co-operated for one month with "Y" Soldier 
Transportation Service in New York City, and between Hoboken and Long Island. Was Train Secretary 
for the "Y" for 500 men from Camp Upton. Long Island, to Camp Funston. While there was neither 
National nor State Employment Service, directed free "Y" employment service for ex-service men in 
Southeast Kansas. Following armistice directed "Y" educational work for exservice men in four counties 
of Southeast Kansas. Directed the distribution of 35.000 pieces of United States Public Health literature 
in Parsons and Labette County. Co-operated with State Board of Public Health in its work with boys 
through its health-lecture program. Mr. Howser is at this time, and has been during the past year, 
serving the interests of ex-service men in eight hospitals of St. Louis. Mo. 

C. V. COGGINS 

Was not only active in Red Cross work during the war period, but was a leader in bis district in all 
five Liberty Loan drives. Was one of the sixteen petitioners for the Labette County Chapter, Red Cross. 

LEONARD RUDE 
It was just two weeks after organizing the Labette County Chapter, Red Cross, that the Labette 
City branch was organized. Mr. Rude being selected chairman, was an active worker for the Red Cross, 
also taking a leading part in all branches of war work in that community. Is chairman of the Labette 
City branch at the present time. 

GEORGE F. JEPSON 
From the beginning of hostilities, Mr. Jepson took an active part in war work in Mound Valley and 
vicinity and continued until the war was concluded. And since that time has been actively associated 
with the Red Cross, being Chairman of the Mound Valley branch at this time and Secretary of the Mound 
Valley branch of the Y. M. C. A. 

JOSEPH F. SHAFFER 

Entered the service September 9, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 353rd 
Infantry, 89th Division. Sailed for overseas with the Division May, 1918. Served in France in Regi- 
mental Intelligence Section, 353rd Infantry, as observer. Was in the Lucey sector. St. Mihiel offensh e, 
Meuse-Argonne drive and the Army of Occupation in Germany. Entitled to wear two gold service 
chevrons. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas I. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

CORPORAL CLAUDE H. ERVIN 
Entered the service October 4. 1917. In training at Camp Funston I Kansas). Assigned to Head- 
quarters Co.. 353rd Infantry. S9th Division. Sailed for France with the Division via Halifax and England, 
May, 1918. Landed at La Harve June 22, 1918. Saw service in the Lucey sector, St. Mihiel offensive. 
Meuse-Argonne offensive and occupation of Germany. Discharged at Camp Funston I Kansas I. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

HOWARD GROVE CAVE 
Entered the service September 9, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"K" 353rd Infantry. 89th Division. Sailed for overseas from New York June 4, 191S. in U. S. S. Pyrrhus. 
Landed at Liverpool, England, June 16, 1918, and went immediately to France where was in intensive 
training behind the lines from June 25, to August 25, 1918. Took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse- 
Argonne offensives and the Army of Occupation in Germany. Sailed from Brest. France, for United 
States May 14, 1919. Landed May 21, 1919. Discharged June 2, 1919. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

CECIL BURRIS 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army April 13, 1917. Was in training at Fort Bliss (Texas). Fort Douglas 

(Utah) and Fort Riley (Kansas), in the Medical Corps. Later was transferred to Base Hospital at Camp 

Grant (Illinois I for service. Sailed for overseas May, 1918, and served in France until conclusion of the 

war. Was discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas I June 24, 1919. Present address. Mound Valley, Kansas. 

ROY BARNETT 
Entered the service June 22, 1918. Was discharged January 25, 1919. Present address, Altamont. 
Kansas. 



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mr >j 



Wt?? ; 




1— ROY F. O'BRIEN 

2— C. O. DANIELS 

3— MURRAY C. CAMPBELL 

4— FLOYD F. FRAME 



5— HAROLD J. PROVOST 
6-JAMES A. KIKER 
7- JOHN S. GRIDLEY 
8— ARTHUR R. THOMPSON 



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LIEUTENANT JAMES A. KIKER 

Entered the service September 19. 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansasl. Assigned to Head- 
quarters Co., 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. Appointed Sergeant December 1, 1917. Sailed overseas June 
4, 1918. Trained in 2nd Corps Army Engineers' Training School, Chatteon-Sur-Seine. France. In charge 
of Pioneer Platoon Headquarters - Co., 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. Participated in occupation of Lucy 
sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive. Detailed to Offictrs Training School at La Valbonne 
(Aisnel France. Recommended and passed examination for 2nd Lieutenant in the O. R. C, January 17. 
1919. Landed in New York from overseas June IS. 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansasl June 
28, 1919. Present address. Oswego, Kansas. 

SERGEANT ROY F. O'BRIEN 

From August. 1917. to May. 1918. at Dennis, Kansas, served as Chairman for Osage township, in- 
cluding Dennis, for Red Cross. Y. M. C. A., Liberty Loan, and other patriotic drives. Entered the 
service at Cherryvale, Kansas, on May 15. 1918, and was sent to the Kansas State Agricultural College at 
Manhatton for two months course in Radio. Later served in the Signal Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison 
l Indiana I. Fort Leavenworth (Kansasl and Camp Meade l Maryland I. On October 1, 1918, was appointed 
Sergeant of the Fourth Training Battalion. Signal Corps, at Fort Leavenworth (Kansas), which rank was 
held at the time of honorable discharge at Camp Funston (Kansasl on January 17, 1919. Present ad- 
dress. Chetopa, Kansas. 

MURRAY C. CAMPBELL 

Enlisted in the U. S. Navy August 5. 1918, at Joplin. Mo. Passed the required examination given 
there, going then on August 7th to St. Louis for second and final examination. Leaving for Mare Island 
(California) to become a rookie "Gob" in Uncle Sam's Navy. Was a seaman while there, remaining until 
the following January. Then transferred to the "Blackgang" (firemen) being put on a draft for the East 
Coast, going to Hampton Roades, Va.. remaining there for three weeks, then transferred to the U. S. S. 
Maine where the test was made while sailing for Cuba; cruised in Southern waters for over six weeks, 
coming back to the States to put in at Philadelphia Navy Yard. Three days later sailed for "somewhere." 
On April 11th sailed from Hoboken, N. J., for Brest. France, on the U. S. S. George Washington. After 
arrival at Brest was stationed at Base No. 5 for few weeks. May 5th the U. S. S. Imperator was brought 
down from Germany to which was assigned and steamed from Brest, France, on May 15th with over 15,000' 
troops, nurses and officers. Then made continuous trips from Hoboken. N. J., to Brest, France, until 
August 10, 1919, transporting our men back to the United States. From August 10th until September 25th- 
lay docked at Pier 4. Hoboken. N. J., waiting further orders. Discharged from service on September 26. 
1919, at St. Louis. Mo. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

JOHN S. GRIDLEY 

Enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps at Philadelphia. Pa.. June 27. 1917. Served with Co. F. Recruit 
Depot Philadelphia. Pa., and Winthrop, Md. ; 3rd Co.. 1st Regiment. Philadelphia, Pa.; 140th Co., 3rd 
Replacement Battalion. Quantico, Va. ; U. S. S. Henderson: Pontanezen Barracks (Brest. Francel, and 
Chatillon. France; 134th Co.. 2nd Replacement Batalion. Grand Champ, France; 49th Co. 5th Regiment, 
Lucy, par Chauteau Thiery ; Headquarters, 1st Battalion. Lucy. France; 49th Co. 5th Regiment. Sarcy, 
France In hospital at Jouy sur Marn. Coulommiers. Bazoilles and Tille. Replacement Camp. Maron, 
France Headquarters 5th Regiment, Manonville, 49th Co.. 5th Regiment at Monte le Vignoble and 
Courtisols. France. Seriously wounded near Somme-Py.. France, October 4, 1918. In French Hospital 
"H. O. E." at de Vatry par Bussy-Lettree. Then to Base Hospitals at Limoges and Bordeaux. France. 
Returned to United States on U. S. S. Powhatan, U. S. Naval Hospitals at Hampton Roads, Va.. and 
Philadelphia. Pa. Discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., June 25, 1919. Present address, Norfolk, Va. 

CORPORAL HAROLD J. PROVOST 

Enlisted in U. S. Army April 16. 1917. Assigned to Co. "F," 37th Regiment, C. A. C. Served in 
France in A. E. F. Now with 2th Infantry at Camp Travis (Texas I. Residence, Parsons, Kansas. 

FLOYD F. FRAME 

Enlisted June 16. 1917. Assigned to Battery "B," 130th Field Artillery. Served in France with the 
35th Division, A. E. F. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

SERGEANT CLARENCE O. DANIELS 

Entered the service July 22, 1918. Assigned to Co. "B," S7th Engineers. Served in France with 
A. E. F. Discharged July 9. 1919. Present address. Kansas City, Kansas. 



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1— HARRY J. LYND 
2— PAYNE H. RATNER 
3— ARTHUR PEFLEY 
4— ROBERT PATRICK 



5— EARL E. BARKER 
6— DAVID N. RANDLE 
7— WALTER C. CRAWFORD 
8— CHARLES B. MILLER 



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CHARLES B. MARTIN 

Volunteered in the late war as a member of the United States Army Postal Service. Enlisted May 
15, 1918 ; sworn in May 19th at Washington, D. C. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, sailed from New 
York May 23, 191S. Landed in Bordeaux. France, June 3, 1918. Was with Captain Knox in A. P. O. 705 
where he worked all Kansas mail. Then coming home for about 30 days. Then transferred to Supply Clerk 
in Paris on August 5. Then tranferred to the 92nd Mobile Division at the Front, taking charge of A. P. O. 
766. serving 35,000 men. Was with the vi^nd Division through the Vosges Mountains. St. Mihiel. Argonne 
and Metz drives. After the battle of the Argonne this Division took over the Toul sector from Nancy 
to Mayme, including the towns of Chamraignealle. Pompai. Marbache, Belleville. Doulevard, St. Genevieve, 
Pont-a-Mousson and the famous Hill No. C06. This hill was taken and retaken five times during the 
war. The 92nd Division drove the Germans out of Pont-a-Mousson and from Hill 206 on October 14 and 
15, 1918, and was still advancing when the armistice was signed. On the 14th day of October was wounded 
by a shrapnel trom a ten-inch shell ; went back to the Division and was gassed at Pont-a-Mousson on 
the 28th day of October; was in the Division Hospital when the Division came home and was transferred 
to Base Hospital No. 57. Sailed home as a Casual from LaHarve on the 22nd day of March. 1919, and 
was sent to the Hospital in Denver, returning home and resuming his duties in the postoffice on September 
23, 1919. While in the service, his wife. Mrs. Amelia Martin, was wroking with the Red Cross at 
home and oldest son. Raymond W. Martin, was called into service just before the armistice and discharged. 
Employed in the Parsons, Kansas, postoffice for the past thirty years. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

WALTER C. CRAWFORD 
Entered the service June 24, 1918. Received training at Camp Funston ( Kansas). Discharged 
March 19, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CORPORAL ARTHUR E. PEFLEY 
Entered the service August, 1918, assigned to Base Hospital. No. 87. In training at Fort Riley 
and Camp Funston i Kansas), and Camp Mac Arthur, (Waco, Texas). Served nine months overseas at 
Toul, France. Arrived home June, 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas) June 25. 1919. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

EARL E. BARKER, U. S. N. R. F. 
Enlisted in the Navy April, 1917. Stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Station (Chicago. HI. I, 
Radio Division. Transl erred to Athletic Department, detailed to Public Works Department. Then 
translerred to Aviation Training School. Released from service February 9, 1919. Disenrolled September 
30, 1921. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

HARRY J. LYND 
Enlisted in Aviation Section, U. S. Army, March 18, 1918. In training at Kelley Field (Texas I and 
Madison Barracks (New York). Served overseas with 26th Aero Photographers. Present address. Parsons,. 
Kansas. 

PAYNE H. RATNER 
Enlisted in the Navy when the United States entered the World War, was sent to first Officers' Trains 
ing Camp, Fort Riley (Kansas). On account of being under minimum age limit was sent back to school at 
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Made repeated attempts to get into the Navy but was rejected 
because of being underweight. Finally accepted July 15, 1918. after securing an order from the War 
Department. Served actively until January 16. 1919. Still a member of Naval Reserves. During training 
period was stationed at Municipal Pier, Chicago, III., and Cleveland, Ohio. Cruised on the Ship Clifford 
F. Moll. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

ROBERT H. PATRICK 

Enlisted as mechanic in the Naval Service December 17, 1917. Assigned to U. S. S. Torpedo Boat 
"Dyer." Left Boston, Mass., July 4, 1918, for European waters. The "Dyer" was engaged as a sub- 
marine chaser. Made eleven round trips from Marseilles, France, to Gibraltar, convoying troops, and 
seven trips across the Medeteranean Sea. Was at Smyrna May 15, 1919, while a battle between the Turks 
and Greeks was in progress, during which 1,500 civilians were killed including many women and children, 
whom the Turks did not spare. Discharged August. 1919. Rated as Machinist's Mate, 1st Class. Present 
address, Kansas City, Mo. Mother, Mrs. Rosa Patrick, Parsons, Kansas. 

DAVID N. RANDLE 

Entered the service March 14, 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston (Kansas). June 
1. 1918, went to Camp Mills (New York). Sailed June 13, for France via Liverpool. England. Landed at 
La Harve. France. July 2. 1918. From there to Bordeaux, France, the following day. Going into camp at 
St. Helene remained there for thirty days. A short time later went to Toul, France, with the Division 
(89th) to take position in the St. Mihiel sector. Taking part in the St. Mihiel offensive, was then 
transferred to the Meuse-Argonne front where they were in the thick of the fighting until the armistice 
was signed. Went with the Division in the occupation of Germany. Left Brest, France, for America, 
May. 1919. Discharged from the army June 5, 1919, at Camp Funston (Kansas). Present residence* 
Parsons, Kansas. 



One Hundred One 




1- SAMUEL A. THOMPSON 
2— W. H. SMITH 
3— GEORGE W. JONES 
4— EMERY LEO HERSH 



5— BENJAMIN F. BINKLEY 
6— JOSEPH WIELGORECKI 
7— HARRY F. HITE 
8— ROBERT K. RYBURN 



One Hundred Two 



GEORGE W. JONES 
Entered the service September 6, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"B," 341st Machine Gun Battalion. 89th Division. Sailed for France June, 1918. Took part in the St. 
Mihiei and Meuse-Argonne offensives and Army of Occupation in Germany. Wounded three times, first, in 
the St. Mihiei drive; second, on the Argonne front, shell striking a box of cartridges, saving a serious 
wounding: third, on the Arponne front, being a serious wound was put out of action. Discharged at 
Camp Funston (Kansas). Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



Entered the service August £ 
Fort Sam Houston (Texas! June 9, 



SAM ALBERT THOMPSON 

1918. Served as Private, 1st Class. Discharged from service at 
919. Present address. Mound Valley, Kansas. 



SERGEANT W. H. SMITH 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army May 29. 1917. Assigned to Headquarters Co., 72nd Field Artillery, 11th 



Division at Camp Meade (Md. I Served with the Division overseas 
Present address. Oswego, Kansas. 



in France. Discharged March 3, 1919. 



HARRY F. HITE 
Entered the service October 15, 1918, at Lawrence, Kansas. Assigned to Mechanic Dept., 
Discharged December 22, 1918. Present address, Mound Valley, Kansas. 



S. A. T. 



BENJAMIN F. BINKLEY 
Entered the service July 22, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Ammuni- 
tion Train, 10th Division. Discharged January, 1919. Present address, Mound Valley, Kansas. 

ROBERT K. RYBURN 
Entered the service April 11, 1917. Assigned to Truck Co. — — , 1st Division. Sailed for France, 
August 7, 1917. Served in the Montdidier, Noyan, Aisne and Marne sectors, St. Mihiei and Meuse-Argonne 
offensives, discharged August 20, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



EMERY LEO HERSH 
Entered the service September 6, 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston (Kansas I 
signed to Provisional Transport Co. Discharged March IS, 1919. Present address Cherryvale 



As- 
Kansas. 



JOSEPH WIELGORECKI 
Entered the service May 28, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 17th Co.,. 
Depot Brigade. Transferred to Jacksonville, Fla., then to Newport News, Va. Sailed for overseas Sep- 
tember 7, 1918, landing at Brest, France. Stationed at La Rochelle. France. Arrived back in U. S. June 
28, 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas) July 23, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



WHEN THE BUGLES BLOW AGAIN 



When the bugles blow again, 
Across the misty fields — 
For silent they long have lain. 
Their lips by orders sealed— 
I know that all is well with us. 
That war and death are o'er 
That soon I'll hear a mother's voice. 
Sweet, as in the days of yore. 

When the bugles blow again, 

As clear as Sabbath bells, 

I know that fever, cold and pain. 

And gas, and mud. and bursting shell; 

Are memories: that we have won! 

That ne'er again shall we go forth 

Full battle fledged to fight the Hun, 

Though mindful evil's still on earth. 

When the bugles blow again — 

RevelFy, taps, tattoo — 

The notes as sweet as summer rain. 



So clearly phrased a-new 

Stir in my heart u love of life. 

A fierce, long hope, and I 

Who laughed at flame and shot and knife. 

No longer wish to die. 

When the bugles blow again. 
The echo comes from you 
Across the land, across thep lain, 
To tell me you are true. 
Bugles that erstwhile sounded strife, 
Sound with the same notes, home ; 
Sound with the same notes, life ; 
Sound with the same notes, home. 

—Paul S. 



Bliss 



Written at Chateau de Chehery. Nov. 28, 1919, 
when fatigue call was blown by Sam Cobb. Note : 
the bugle was never used near the front line until 
af:ter the armistice was signtd. 



One Hundred Three 




1— E. G. CRANDALL 
2— JAY RICHMOND 
3— JUNIUS A. GADDIS 
4— CECIL E. KEITER 



5— WILLIAM E. BRANNAN 
6— FRANK G. TAYLOR 
7— MILO E. GROSS 
8- BENJAMIN N. MILLER 



One Hundred Four 



FRANK GLENN TAYLOR 
Enlisted at Chicago. 111., in Co. "B," 13th Ry. Engineers, May IT. 1917. Sailed from New York for 
overseas June 21, 1917. Landed at La Harve. France, August 17, 1917. Then stationed at Chalons, France, 
for further training. The 13th Engineers were attached to the French Fourth Army and Freneh Second 
Army until September 1. 1918. in the Verdun, St. Mihiel and Champagne sectors. After September 1, 
1918, with the American Army in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Sailed from Marseilles, 
France, via Gibraltor, for home April 12, 1919. Discharged at Rockford, 111., May 14, 1919. Present 
address, Parsons, Kansas. 

JUNIUS ALAN GADDIS 
Entered the service September 5, 1917. Assigned to Co. "H," 60th Infantry, 5th Division. Served 
overseas 15 months. Took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Seriously wounded in the 
Meuse-Argonne battle, October 11. 1918. Returned home August 1, 1919. Present address, Parsons. Kansas. 

BENJAMIN N. MILLER 
With Truck Co. No. 2, 117th Ammunition Train, -12nd Division. Sailed for overseas October. 1917. 
Returned to United States May 15, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

JAY RICHMOND 
Enlisted in the Naval Reserves at Kansas University, October 2. 1918. Released from active duty 
December 12, 1918. Belong to the Naval Reserves at present time. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CECIL E. KEITER 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army March 27, 1917. Assigned to 140th Field Hospital Corps. 110th Sanitary 
Train, 35th Division. Stationed at Camp Doniphan lOklalomai. Transferred to 103rd Co. 35th Engineers 
as a machinist. Sailed from Camp Merritt I N. J.I March 27, 1918, for France. Landed at Brest, France, 
April 14, 1918. From there to Beziers, Herault, France. January. 1919, was transferred to Lumar, France. 
March 18, 1919, was sent to Aigufuille. France. From there to La Rochelle. Later to St. Nazaire, France. 
Left for United States July 8, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge (Iowa) August 5. 1919. Present address. 
Parsons, Kansas. 

MILO E. GROSS 
Entered the service May 10, 1918. Sent to Jefferson Barracks (Missouri I. Then transferred to the 
313th Cavalry. Stationed at Del Rio, Texas, for boarder duty. In August, 1918, was transferred to 
Battery "C," 69th Field Artillery and stationed at Camp Knox (Kentucky). Took a course in Field Gun 
Mechanism while there. Discharged at Camp Knox iKy.) December 20, 1918. Present address. Parsons, 
Kansas. 

ELBERT GORDON CRANDALL 

In the Spanish-American War enlisted in the 161th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. June, 1S98. Served 
in Cuba in the 7th Army Corps under General Fitzhugh Lee. Was captured by hostile tribe and held 
in prison for several weeks, during which time was roughly treated. Appointed Corporal after return 
to the Regiment. With the 161st Infantry went to Washington, D. C, by invitation of President McKinley, 

In 1917 made application for admittance to Officers' Training Camp. Without waiting for ap- 
pointment enlisted in the Army. Served until September 3, 1918. Recommended for appointment as 1st 
Lieutenant. Rejected for overseas duty on account of fast heart. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

WILLIAM EDWIN BRANNAN 
Entered the service August 29, 1918. In training at Fort Riley t Kansas). Assigned to Co "E," 
Provisional Field Hospital, M. O. T. C. September 9, 1918. Transferred to 322nd Sanitary Train, 97th 
Division. Camp Cody IN. Mexico), September 20. 1918. Transferred to Field Hospital Co. 385, 97th 
Division, Camp Cody (N. Mexico), October 5, 1918. Transferred to 2nd Co., 1st Battalion, 164th Depot 
Brigade, Camp Funston (Kansas), December 7, 1918. Discharged Camp Funston (Kansas) December 14, 
1918. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



THE NEW ARMY 



Who are those soldiers 
Who go marching down ? 

They're the young fellows 
Of your old home town. 

The butcher's son, the baker's. 
His Honor's lad, too ; 



The old casual mixture 
Of Gentile and Jew. 

Don't they march manly ! 

Ay, they step light ; 
And soon by the papers 

Ye'll see they can fight ! 

— R. R. Kirk, S. S. U. 



One Hundred Five 




1— KARL S. WKISBROD 
2— DAVE WOMBLE 
3— EDMOND A. BEASLEY 
4— WILLARD B. HALL 



5— JACK W. MILLER 
6— RALPH W. KENDALL 
7— CARL V. RICKETTS 
8 -CHARLES BRITTON 



One Hundred Six 



CHARLES A. BRITTON 

Enlisted in the U. S. Navy, July 1, 1918. Sent to Great Lakes (111. I for training . Assigned to 
U. S. S. Los Angeles, September 7. 1918, at Philadelphia, Pa. Sailed for overseas from New York, ar- 
riving at Brest, France. September 19. 1918. Went overland from Brest to La Harve. France. Crossed 
the English Channel on a British boat with 900 German prisoners. Later was sent to Queenstown, 
Ireland. Sailed for home on U. S. S. Manley, December 23, 1918. Released from active duty January 5, 
1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

KARL F. WEISBRJOD 

Enlisted in the Coast Artillery. In training at Fort McKinley (Maine}, and Fort Williams 
(Maine). Served in France with the 5th Anti- Aircraft Battalion, 55th Battery, Field Artillery. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

DAVE WOMBLE 

Enlisted with the 66th Engineers, April 26, 1918. Stationed at Camp Laurel (Md.t. Sailed from 
Hoboken, N. J., for overseas, June 29, 1918. Served in France one year. Arrived in U. S. July 5, 1919. 
Discharged at Camp Dodge (Iowa) July 15, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

JACK W. MILLER 

Enlisted in the Navy, December 27. 1917. In training at Great Lakes (111.) and Harvard College. 
Assigned to Battleship. U. S. N., as Radio Operator, which did convoy duty and European Coast defense 
duty. Discharged October 17, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

WILLARD B. HALL 
Enlisted in the 1st Kansas Infantry, July 26. 1917, as musician. In training at Lawrence. Kansas, 
until October 17, 1917. Then went to Camp Doniphan (Okla.) Sailed for overseas with 110th Engineers 
April, 1918. Served in France until conclusion of the war. Discharged May 3, 1919, at Camp Funston 
(Kansas). Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

CORPORAL EDMOND AUSTIN BEASLEY 
Entered the service September 19, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas), assigned to Co. 
"K." 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. Went overseas with the Division in June. 1918, and in August. 
1918. went into the trenches north of Toul, France. Was in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives 
and occupation of Germany. Discharged June 2. 1919. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

RALPH W. KENDALL 
Enlisted in the Navy as S 2 C. U. S. N. R. F., July 26. 1918. In training at Great Lakes (111.) and 
later transferred to U. S. Naval Radio School, Cambridge, Mass. Released from active service. January 
29, 1919. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

CARL V. RICKETTS 
Enlisted in the 3rd Missouri Infantry, May 15. 1916. Served on Mexican border from June, 
1916, to September. 1916. Recalled for guard duty at Kansas City, March 26. 1917. Stationed at Camp 
Doniphan (Okla.) in October. 1917. with 140th Infantry. March 1. 1918, transferred to 137th Field 
Hospital. Served eleven months in France. Was in the Haute Alsace. St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne 
offensives. Discharged May 7, 191S. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



HOGGIN' IT 



Well. I've eaten food sublime, and I've eaten food 
that rotten. 

From Alaska's coldest corner to where the land- 
scape's cotton ; 

At times there has been plenty, then there's times 
when there'e been none. 

And I've kept me upper stiffest, for complainin' 
I'm not one. 

But it's now that I'm protest in' — oh, I've suffered 
silence long — 

It's fancy food I'm cravin' for me system's going 
wrong. 

Oh. it's bacon, bacon, bacon, 
Till your belly's fairly ackin' 
For some biscuits or some hot cakes that in your 
mouth would melt ; 

There's no German do could dare me. 
No fear of death would scare me. 
If I only had some chicken a la King beneath my 
belt. 



Now I read where Mr. Hoover tell the folks to lay 

off hoggin". 
We'll be needin' lots of grub to put the Fritz on 

the toboggan ; 
And the way that they've responded makes you 

feel so awful proud 
That you'd like to meet old Bill to take his measure 

for a shroud. 
Lord, it's plenty that we're gettin'. but I'd be 

dancin' jigs 
If they'd pass an order home to stop a-killin' off 

the pigs. 

For it's bacon, bacon, bacon. 
Till your very soul is shakin' — 
If I could pick me eatin", it's a different song I'd 
sing : 

I'd not miss a raidin' party. 
For patrol I'd be quite hearty. 
Oh. I'd swap me chance of Heaven for some chicken 
a la King. 

— Med. Miq. 



One Hundred Seven 




1 -FRANK W. KNIGHT 
2— LLOYD L. DYER 
3— HORACE B. BARTLETT 
4 ALBERT S. BLAKE 



5--WILLIAM B. WILKS 
6— C. BROWN BARBER 
7— WILLIAM R. O'BRYAN 
8— FRANCIS A. WILMOTH 



One Hundred Eight 



SERGEANT WILLIAM R. OBRYAN 
Entered the service February 5. 1918. Served with 39th Engineers. Sailed for France June 7, 1918. 
Arrived back in U. S. June 9, 1919. Discharged June 21, 1919. Present address. Navada, Mo. 

SERGEANT FRANK W. KNIGHT 
Entered the service May 14. 1918, at Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Assigned to Supply Troop. 
313th Cavalry, stationed at Camp Del Rio (Texas). August 23, 1918, transferred to Supply Co., 70th 
Field Artillery. Sent to Camp Knox (Kentucky). Later transferred to Battery "B," 70th Field Artillery, 
as line Sergeant. Had charge of training 70th and "2nd Regiments. Field Artillery in Chemical Warfare 
Service. Discharged at Camp Knox (Ky.) February 3. 1919. Present address, Joplin, Mo. 

CORPORAL WILLIAM B. WILKS 
Entered the service September 19, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"K." 353rd Infantry, 89th Division, Served in France with the 89th Division in the St. Mihiel offensive, 
Meuse-Argonne offensive. Also with Army of Occupation in Germany. Discharged at Camp Funston 
(Kansas) June 2, 1919. Present address, Cherryvale, Kansas. 

ALBERT S. BLAKE 

Enlisted July. 1917. Assigned to Cassion Co. "F," 117th Ammunition Train. 42nd Division. Later 
transferred to 117th Ry. Engineers. Served with the 42nd Division in France. Discharged May, 1919. 
Present address, St. Louis, Mo. 

CHARLES BROWN BARBER 

Enlisted at St. Joseph. Mo., June 8, 1918. Sent to Camp Pike (Arkansas). Transferred July 5, 
1918, to 39th Division at Camp Beauregard ( Louisiana). Transferred July 16, 1918, to Camp Stewart 
(Virginia). Sailed for France July 20, 1918. Stationed at Massa, France. Transferred August 22, 1918, 
to the 32nd Division, Co. "A." 126th Infantry. Participated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Marched 
from the Argonne Forest to the Rhine. Germany, with the Division. A part of the Army of Occupation 
in Germany until April, 1919. Sailed for U. S. from Brest, France, May 3. 1919. Discharged at New York 
May 27, 1919. Present address, Denver, Colorado. 

CORPORAL LLOYD L. DYER 

Enlisted in the Army May 4. 1918. Assigned to Co. "E," 66th Engineers. Went to France June 30. 
1918. Returned to TJ. S. July 9, 1919. Discharged as Camp Dodge (Iowa) July 16, 1919. Present address, 
Pittsburg, Kansas. 

HORACE B. BARTLETT 

Enlisted in Marine Corps. August 20, 1918. In training at Paris Island, and Indian Head. Dis- 
charged January 24, 1919. Present address, Eagle, Idaho. 

FRANCIS A. WILMOTH 

Enlisted March 17, 1917. Assigned to 44th Coast Artillery. Sailed for France August 14. 1917. Took 
part in the following fronts: Wilier. Alsace, St. Mihiel offensive and Bouillonville. Accidentally injured 
May 2, 1918. Gassed October 2. 1918. Arrived back in U. S. February 4, 1919. Discharged June 4, 1920. 
Present address, Littleneck. Long Island, N. Y. 



IF I WERE A COOTIE 



If I were a cootie (pro- Ally, of course), 

I'd hie me away on a Potsdam-bound horse. 

And I'd seek out the Kaiser (the war-maddened 

cuss). 
And I'd be a bum cootie if I didn't muss 
His Imperial hide from his head to his toe ! 
He might hide from the boms, but I'd give him no 

show ! 
If I were a cootie, I'd deem it my duty 
To thus treat the Kaiser, 

Ah, oui ! 
And after I'd thoroughly covreed Bill's area, 

I'd hasten away to the Prince of Bavaria, 
And chew him a round or two — under the Linden — 
Then pack up my things and set out for old 
Hinden — 



(Old Hindy's the guy always talking 'bout straf- 
fing) — 
To think whatl'd do to that bird sets me laughin' 
If I were a cootie, I'd dem it my duty 
To thus treat the Prince and old Hindy. 
Ah, oui ! 

I'd ne'er get fed up on Imperial gore — 
I might rest for a while, butl'd go back for more, 
I'd spend a few days with that Austrian crew, 
And young Carl himself I'd put down for a chew : 
They'd be no meatless days for this cootie, I know. 
They'd all get one jolly good straffing or so. 
For if I were a cootie. I'd deem it my duty 
To thus treat their damships. 
Ah, oui ! 

—A. P. Bowen, Sgt.. R. T. O. 



One Hundred Nine 




1— EUGENE B. BEAVER 
2— GRADY B. SAYLOR 
3— CHARLES W. REED 
4— MAXIE M. REECE 



5— GEORGE E. KNIGHT 
6— FRANK M. DIETSCHE 
7 BENJAMIN ANDERSON 
S -HOMER G. GIBSON 



One Hundred Ten 



GRADY B. SAYLOR 
Enlisted in the Navy June 1. 1918. In training at Great Lakes (111.). Sent to Atlantic Coast for 
service as G. M. V. C. on U. S. S. Western Plain, U. S. S. Main and U. S. S. Mississippi. Made five 
round trips to France ; the Southern cruise of the Grand Fleet to West Indies. South America, Ports of 
Spain, Trinidad and San Domingo. Also made the Ports of Liverpool and South Hampton. England . 
Bordeaux. La Havre and Brest, France : Italian ports, Constantinople, and Algiers. Was in Victory 
Parades with General Pershing at Paris, France, and London, England. Made 58,000 miles during 
service. Discharged at Philadelphia, September 10. 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

HOMER GLENN GIBSON 
Entered the service September 6, 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston (Kansas), 
Assigned to 8th Co.. 5th Regiment, 164th Depot Brigade. Discharged November 26th, 1919. Present ad- 
dress. Edna. Kansas. 

CORPORAL GEORGE EMERY KNIGHT 
Entered the service May 14, 1918, at Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Transferred to Del Rio 
(Texas), May 19. 1918. Assigned to Troop "A." 313th Cavalry. Transferred August 29. 1918. to Camp 
Knox (Kentucky)), assigned to Battery "A,** 69th Field Artillery. Discharged at Camp Knox |Ky.) 
December 20, 1918. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

FRANK M. DIETSCHE 
Entered the service October 4. 1917. Was in the service 22 months of which 14 months were over- 
seas. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CHARLES W. REED 
Entered the service August 26, 1918. In training at Fort Riley (Kansas I. Served in France from 
November 2, 1918. to February, 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas). February 26, 1919. 
Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

MAXIE M. REESE 
Entered the service May 15, 1918. Assigned to 313 Cavalry, Del F.io, Texas. Transferred to 
Supply Battery. 69th Field Artillery, Camp Knox |Ky.> Discharged at Camp Knox. December 21. 1918. 
Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

BENJAMIN ANDERSON 
Enlisted in the U. S. Navy December 13, 1917. In Naval Aviation. In training at Great Lakes 
(Illinois), Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania). Was stationed at East Leigh, England; Panliac, France; 
Pelham Bay, N. Y. : Charleston, S. C, and Hampton Roads, Va. Discharged at St. Louis. Mo. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

EUGENE R. BEAVER 
Entered the service May 14, 1918, with the 313th Cavalry, stationed at Jefferson Barracks (Mo.) 
Sent to Del Rio, Texas, June 18, 1918. Later was transferred to the Bakers' and Cooks School at Camp 
Travis (Texas) for training. On September 18, 1918, was transferred to 69th Field Artillery, Camp 
Knox fKy.i. Returned to Camp Travis (Texas). September 28, 1918, as First Class Cook. Discharged 
March 9, 1919, at Camp Funston (Kansas). Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 



I LOVE 

I LOVE corned beef — I never knew 
How good the stuff COULD taste in stew! 
I love it WET, I love it DRY, 
I love it baked and called MEAT PIE. 
I love it camouflaged in HASH — 
A hundred buck's I'd give — in CASH 
To have a BARREL of such chow 
A-standing here before me now. 
I say "YUM YUM" when "soupie" blows. 
I SNIFF and raise aloft my nose: 
CORNED WILLIE! Ha! Oh, BOY, that's FINE! 
Can hardly keep my place in LINE. 
I kick my heels and wildly yell : 
"Old Sherman said that 'WAR IS HELL," 
But GLADLY would I bear the heat 
If corned beef I could get to eat !" 
I love it HOT— I love it COLD, 
Corned Willie never WILL grow old. 
I love it — now PAUSE — listen, friend: 
When to this war there comes an end 
And PEACE upon the earth shall reign, 
I'll hop a boat for HOME again. 
Then to a RESTAURANT I'll speed- 
No dainty MANNERS will I heed- 
But to the waiter I will cry: 



CORNED BEEF 

"Bring me — well, make it corned beef PIE ! 

And — better bring some corned beef STEW, 

And corned beef COLD— I'll take that, too. 

And— man. don't think I'm CRAZY, 

But could you bring a corned beef CAN ? 

And— WAIT- I'm not through ORDERING yet— 

I want a SIRLOIN STEAK— you BET, 

With hash browned SPUDS— now, LISTEN friend. 

I've got the CASH, you may depend- — 

Right HERE it is— let's see. I'll try— 

Oh, bring me a piece of hot MINCE PIE 

And ALL this stuff that's printed here; 

My appetite is HUGE, I fear. 

Then, when he's filled my festive board 

With all these eats, I'll thank the Lord, 

(For that's the PROPER thing to do). 

And then I'll take the corned beef STEW, 

The corned beef PIE. and corned beef COLD. 

The corned beef CAN I'll then take hold 

And RAM the whole WORKS into it 

And say "NOW, damn you. THERE you'll sit. 

You've haunted every DREAM I've had — 

You don't know what shame IS, egad! 

Now SIT there Bo— See how you FEEL— 

And watch me eat a REG'LAR meal !" 



One Hundred Eleven 




1— JAY DALBERT KARAS 
2— DENTON POULSON 
3— HOWARD E. GILL 
4 BYRON H. CARR 



5— BOYDIE E. HOKE 

6— JOHN F. CARSON 

7- LESTER D. RICHARDSON 

R NATHAN R. BICKFORD 



One Hundred Twelve 



SERGEANT DENTON POULSON 
Enlisted in the Aviation Service, U. S. Army, December 12, 1917. In training at Kelly Field (Texas), 
Mechanics Training School (Minneapolis, Minn.i, and Sell ridge Field < Michigan i. Assigned to 829th Aero 
Squadron. Sailed for France August 31, 1918. Returned to United States September 5, 1919, and dis- 
charged September 13, 1919. at Camp Dodge dowai. Present address. Welch, Oklahoma. 

HOWARD E. GILL 
Entered the service August 29, 1918. Stationed and in training at Fort Riley (Kansas), assigned 
to Group *'E4.** Transferred on Septemher 7, 1918, to Aviation Field No. 2, Garden City. L. I., New 
York, and assigned to work in the Port Hospital. Later sent to Cooperstown, N. Y. Some time later 
was transferred to the M. T. C. as chauffeur. Discharged September 25, 1919. Present address. Cherry 
vale. Kansas. 

ROYDIE E. HOKE 
Enlisted April 29, 1917, in U. S. Army. Sent to Jefferson Barracks (Missouri!, assigned to Coast 
Artillery. Ti-ansferred to Camp Dade I Florida I. Served there seven months as Gunner, 1st Class. Then 
stationed in Truck Transportation School at Jacksonville, Fla.. for two months. Then back to Camp Dade 
(Florida I . Later to Camp Eustes (Virginia). Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas). December 23, 1919. 
Present address, Coffeyville, Kansas. 

JOHN F. CARSON 
Entered the service August 5, 1918. In training at Camp Funston iKansas). Assigned to Battery 
*'F." 30th Field Artillery, 10th Division. Discharged January 23. 1919. Present address. Wimer, Oklahoma. 

JAY D. KARAS 
Entered the service September 6, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"B." 28th Machine Gun Battalion. Discharged January 21, 1919. Present address, Independence, Kansas. 

LESTER DELBERT RICHARDSON 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army May 7, 1918. Served with 304th Battalion, Tank Corps, in France eight 
months. Discharged May 19, 1919. Present address, Saiina, Kansas. 

NATHAN R. BICKFORD 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army February 23, 1917. Assigned to Co. "G" 9th Infantry, 2nd Division. 
In training at Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Served in France in the battles at Veaux. Chauteau Thiery, 
St. Mihiel, Champagne and Meuse-Argonne. Was gassed July 1, 1918. but did not leave the front. 
Wounded in right arm July 18, 1918, at Soissons, France. While in the thick of the Meuse-Argonne fight- 
ing, acting as scout in an advanced position, was badly wounded by machine gun bullet entering right 
shoulder, breaking three ribs and going through right lung. Arrived back in U. S. January 5, 1919,. 
Discharged at Camp Funston 1 Kansas) May 20, 1919. Present address, Manhattan, Kansas. 

BYRON H. CARR 
Enlisted in Field Hospital Corps at Parsons. Assigned to Field Hospital. 110th Sanitary Train, 35th 
Division. In training at Camp Doniphan (Oklahoma). Sailed for France with the Division and took part 
in the following battles and engagements: Messerling sector, August 14. 1918: Gerardmes. August 14- 
September 12, 1918: St. Mihie! offensive September 12-lfi, 1918; Meuse-Argonne. September 26-October 1. 
1918 ; Verdun sector, October 14-Novmher 6, 1918. Dischargd at Camp Funston (Kansas) May 9, 1919, 
Present address, Angola, Kansas. 



HOME IS WHERE THE PIE IS 



"Home is where the heart is" — 

Thus the poet sang ; 
But "home is where the pie is" 

For the doughboy ««ng. 
Crullers in the craters. 

Pastry in aoris— 
Our Salvation Army lass 

Sure knows how iu please! 

Watch her roll the pie crust 

Mellower than gold ; 
Watch her place it neatly 

Within its ample mold ; 
Sniff the grand -aroma 

While it slowly hakes- 
Though the whine ol Minnie shells 

Echoes far awakes. 



Tin hat for a halo ! 

Ah, she wears it well ! 
Making pies for homesick lads 

Sure is "beating hell ;" 
In a region blasted 

By fire and flame and sword. 
Our Salvation Army lass 

Battles for the Lord ! 

Call me sacrilegious. 

And irreverent, too ; 
Pits".' They link us up with home 

As naught else can do ! 
"Home is where the heart is" — 

True, the poet sang : 
But, "home is where the pie is" 

To the Yankee yang ! 



One Hundred Thirteen 




1— CLARENCE HENRY RICE 
2— JOHN CARROLL CARPENTER 
8-WM. C. CARSON 
4— HOWARD TRIEBEL 



5— ERNEST T. CRAWFORD 
6— MYRON V. GEORGE 
7-FRED ROBERTS 
8— CHARLES B. LANDAKER 



One Hundred Fourteen 



CAPTAIN J. C. MISSILDINE 

Enlisted in the Medical Corps, 16th Infantry. 1st Division, U. S. A. Was one of the two doctors 
from Labette County to go overseas in the American Expeditionary Forces. 

CAPTAIN M. D. AILES 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, M. R. C, April, 1917. Ordered to active duty May 29, 1917. Pro- 
moted to rank of Captain November, 1917. Honorably discharged May 29, 1919. Joined American Legion at 
Parsons, Kansas, 1920. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 

JOHN CARL BROWN 

(First Labette County "Boy" to Be Killed in Action.! 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1915. Was stationed at Douglas, Arizona. Served with General 
Pershing in American Expeditionary Force in Mexico and on the Mexican border. Went overseas with 
General Peishing in 1917, and was in the thick of the fray until killed, June 15, 1918, in the battle of 
the Marne. He was the first boy killed in action from Labette County. At the time of his death was 23 
years of age. His parents reside now in California. 

SERGEANT JOHN CARROLL CARPENTER 

Enlisted March 19. 1918, at Des Moines. Iowa, in Field Artillery, U. S. Army. Was later assigned 
to the 5th Ammunition Train, 5th Division, and stationed at Camp Logan (Texas!. Sailed for overseas 
with the Division in May, 1918. Took part in the Vosges sector, St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne offensives 
and the Army of Occupation in Germany. Sailed from France for home as a casual in January. 1919. 
Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

CHARLES B. LANDAKER 

Enlisted with Motor Truck Co. No. 10 at Parsons, Kansas, in July, 1917 (Motor Truck No. 10 being 
consolidated with Motor Truck Co. No. 2, 117th Ammunition Train, 12nd (Rainbow) Division.) Was in 
training at Camp Mills, Long Island, N. Y., until October 31, 1917, when the Division sailed for France. 
Took part in the fighting in the Luneville sector, Baccarat sector. Champagne sector, Marne and Chateau 
Thierry defensives, the St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne offensives and the Army of Occupation in Germany. 
Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CORPORAL MYRON V. GEORGE 

Enlisted in the 4th Co., Coast Artillery. Stationed at Christobol, Panama, Canal Zone, during the 
World War. Present address, Altamont, Kansas. 

CLARENCE HENRY RICE 

Entered the service May 28, 1918. Received first training at Camp Funston (Kansas) and Camp 
Dodge (Iowa I. Assigned to Battery "B" 339th Field Artillery. Embarked at Hoboken, N. J., August 23, 
1918, for France, by the way of Liverpool, England. Arrived at La Havre, France, September 12. 1918. 
Left the following morning for the front and remained in France until hostilities were concluded. Present 
address, Chetopa. Kansas. 

FRED ROBERTS 

Entered the service May 28. 1918. Received first training at Camp Funston i Kansas) and Fort 

Benjamin Harrison (Indiana). Assigned to Co. "F," 34th Engineers. Sailed for France August 16. 1918, 

via Liverpool, England. Stationed at St. Nazaire. France, greater portion of time overseas. Left 
Brest, France, for home September, 1919. Present address, Valeda, Kansas. 

ERNEST TINDER CRAWFORD 

Entered the service July 22. 1918. Received first training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned 
to Ambulance Co. 240, 10th Sanitary Train, later was transferred to Co. 239, stationed at Hagerstown, 
Maryland, when the armistice was signed. Received discharge January 23, 1919. Present address, Labette, 
Kansas. 

HOWARD TRIEBEL 

Inducted into the service a few days before the signing of the Armistice, was on the way to Fort 
Riley I Kansas* when hostilities ceased. Present address. Edna. Kansas. 

WILLIAM C. CARSON 

Inducted into the service at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 15th Co., 4th Battalion, 164 D. B. 
Present address. Mound Valley. Kansas. 



One Hundred Fifteen 



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1— HOWARD M. LEE 
2— CALVIN E. CADE 
3- J. A. FARRELL 
4— L. A. FARRELL 



5— ROY H. BIRT 
6— J. B. FARRELL 
7— JAMES E. McGINNIS 
8— FRANK J. FARRELL 



One Hundred Sixteen 



FRANK J. FARRF.LL 

Enlisted May 1, 1017, as Landsman for Yeoman, U. S. Navy, at Kansas City, Mo. From Kansas 
City was sent to Great Lakes Training Station, there taught the first principles of the necessities of a 
"sea-going" Gob. At Great Lakes made the rating of Yoeman 3rd class and was shipped from there 
to Receiving Ship at Philadelphia : made the rating of Yoeman 2nd class. After a short period of service 
on the United States Ship Nevada, was transferred to the United States Ship Reina Mercedes, and from 
there to the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.. served as Court Recorder, Ship's Writer and 
Captain's Writer, making the ratings of Yoeman 1st class and Chief Yoeman. While at the Naval 
Academy passed the examination for appointment as Assistant Paymaster but never got the opportunity 
to serve in that capacity due to the signing of the armistice. Received honorable discharge August 10, 
1919. Present address. Kansas City, Mo. 

CALVIN E. CADE 

Entered the service January 24. 191S. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas) in the Iufantry 
Division. On July 20, 1918, was transferred to Medical Department and sent to Fort Crook (Neb.) in 
charge of the dispensory at the Base Hospital. Transferred to Nitro. W. Va.. September 1. 1918. Then 
transferred to Camp Sherman (Ohiol January 1, 1919, and discharged from the service January 9, 1919. 
Present address, Parsons. Kansas. 



HOWARD M. LEE 

Entered the service September 19. 1917. In training at Camp Funston I Kansas I. Assigned to 353rd 
Infantry. 89th Division. Transferred to 35th Engineers. 21st Grand Division, January 7, 1918. and sta- 
tioned at Camp Grant I Illinois I. Sailed for overseas January 28. 1918. Served with the 35th Engineers 
in France until the end of the war. Returned to United States May. 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston 
i Kansas). Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



EjOY H. BIRT 

Enlisted in National Guard May 22. 1917. Went into Federal Service August 5, 1917. Assigned to 
140th Field Hospital, 110th Sanitary Train. 35th Division. In training at Camp Doniphan (Okla.) Sailed 
from New York for overseas May IS, 1918. via England. Landed at La Harve, France. Took part in the 
following fronts: Vosges sector, St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne offensives. Present address, St. Louis, Mo. 

JAMES E. McGINNIS 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army May 26. 1917. Assigned to Battery "A." second Regiment (Missouri), 
Field Artillery. Discharged August 14. 1917, on account of physical disability. Re-entered the service 
August 29, 1918. Stationed at Fort Riley I Kansas I. Assigned to Base Hospital No. 90. Officers Training 
Camp. Sailed for overseas November 10, 1918. Returned to U. S. from France July 6, 1919. Was dis- 
charged at Camp Funston (Kansas) July 14, 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 




JOHN L. ODELL 

Entered the service July, 1918. In training at Camp Funston 
(Kansasl. Assigned to Co. "C," 118th Engineers. Present address. 
Parsons. Kansas. 



One Hundred Seventeen 




1- HOMER BOWMAN 
2— ROY G. McLANE 
3— JOHN L. MILES 
4- BENTON H. ARMES 



5— OLIVER W. WARBINGTON 
6— ROY S. HANDLEY 
7— JAMES F. BLEVINS 
8— LEE McCREARY 



One Hundred Eighteen 



JOHN L. MILES 
Enlisted October 1, 1918, at Manhattan, Kansas, where he was stationed until discharged December 
12, 11(18. Received appointment as Army Field Clerk. February, 1919. Assigned to duty at Headquarters* 
Port of Embarkation. Hoboken, N. J. Sailed April 1, 1919, for unassigned duty in France with Army 
of Occupation. Received assignment for Port of Rotterdam. Holland, Supply Base, April 15, 1919. 
Transferred to Camp Pontanzen, Brest, France, August, 1919. Returned to U. S. October 28, 1919. As- 
signed to duty Headquarters Central Department, Chicago, 111. Discharged December 31, 1919. Present 
address, Coffeyville, Kansas. 

OLIVER W. WARBINGTON 
Entered the service September 6, 1918. In trainine at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"C." 29th Machine Gun Battalion. Discharged January 24, 1919. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

JAMES F. BLEVINS 
Entered the service July 22, 1918. Sailed for France October 19, 1918. Served in Camp Hospital, 
Medical Corps, near Swiss border. Sailed for U. S. in July, 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas). 
Present address. Edna. Kansas. 

ROY S. HANDLEY 
Entered the service July 20, 1918. Stationed at Fort Riley (Kansas). Went overseas September 12, 

1918. Landed at Brest ; sick in hospital for one month, ordered to front when armistice was signed. Then 
transferred to A. E. F. Hospital at Baume. France. Sailed for home June 15, 1919. Discharged July 15, 

1919. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

HOMER BOWMAN 
Enlisted in the U. S. A. at Wichita Falls, Texas, February 10, 1918. In training at Fort MacArthur 
(California). Assigned to Co. "A" 55th Ammunition Train, C. A. C, 5th Division. Arrived in France 
June 14, 1918. Took part in the Somme and Meuse-Argonne offensives. 
(Texas) March 29, 1919. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

LEE McCREARY 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army December 6, 1917. In training at Charlotte, 
N. J.. May 1918, for France. Landed at Brest, France, Decoration Day. 



Discharged at Camp Bowie 



fronts: Chauteau-Thiery. St. Mihiel. Meuse-Argonne, Fran 
many. Entitled to wear two Gold War Service Chevrons. 



N. C. Sailed from Hoboken, 
Took part in the following 
!, and with the Army of Occupation in Ger- 
Discharged at Camp Funston ( Kansas) May 
12, 1919. Re-enlisted January 27, 1921, assigned to Co. "B," 64th Infantry, 7th Division. Stationed at 
Plattsburg Barracks. N. Y. Residence address, Oswego, Kansas. 

ROY G. McLANE 
Entered the service May 28, 191S. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Served in A. E. F. in 
France from September 30, 1918, to July 4, 1919. Present address, Oswego, Kansas. 

CORPORAL BENTON H. ARMES 
Entered the service May 28, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas) later at Fort Lavenworth 
(Kansas I. Sailed for overseas July 9. 1918. Served with 413th Telegraph Battalion. Signal Corps, 
Detached Division. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas) May 14, 1919. Present address, Parsons, Kansas. 



JUST THINKIN' 



Standin' up here on the fire-step, 
Lookin' ahead in the mist, 
With a tin hat over your ivory 
With a rifle clutched in your fist ; 
Waitin' and watchin' and wond'rin' 
If the Hun's comin' over tonight — 
Say, ain't the thing you think of 
Enough to give you a fright? 

Things you ain't even thought of 
For a couple o' months or more ; 
Things that 'ull set you laughin'. 
Things that 'ull make you sore; 
Things that you saw in the movies. 
Things that you saw on the street. 
Things that you're really proud of. 
Things that are — not so sweet. 

Debts that are past collectin*. 
Stories you hear and forget, 
Ball games and birthday parties. 
Horn-* of drill in the wet; 



Headlines, recruitin' posters. 
Sunsets, 'way out at sea. 
Evenings of pay days— golly. 
It's a queer thing, this memory! 

Faces of pals in Homeburg, 

Voices of women folk, 

Verses you learnt in schooldays, 

Pop up in the mist and smoke. 

As you stand there, grippin' that rifle, 

A-starin", and chilled to the bone, 

Wonderin' and wonderin' and wonderin'. 

Just thinkin' there — all alone ! 

When will the war be over? 
When will the gang break through ? 
What will the U. S. look like? 
What will there be to do? 
Where will the Boches be then? 
Who will have married Nell? 
When's that relief a-comin' up? 
Gosh ! But this thinkin's hell ! 

— Hudson Hawley, Pvt. M. G. Bn. 



One Hundred Nineteen 




1— VERNE L. YOUNG 
2— GLENN U. CALDWELL 
3— FRANCIS T. PROVOST 
4— HERMAN T. MURRY 



5 -MARION T. BURTON 
6- HARRY T. CAVANAGH 
7— GLENN O. ROSS 
8— IVAN L. DENNIS 



One Hundred Twenty 



SERGEANT CLARENCE E. HABIGER 

Enlisted in (he U. S. Army September 22. 1917, at Fort Bliss (Texas). Sent to Camp Grant (111.) 
and assigned to 21st Regiment Engineers. Light Railway. Later stationed at Camp Merritt. Sailed for 
overseas December 26. 1917, on U. S. S. President Grant. Arrived at Brest, France, January 10, 1918. 
Shortly after arrival in France was sent to front lines. The Headquarters were located at Neuf Etang 
Junction, in Nauginsard Woods. In July. 1918. was transferred with the Regiment to Relleville near 
Nancy, and given charge of Light Railways in the Nancy sector, remaining there until the St. Mihiel 
offensive was concluded then moved to Cheppy in the Argonne. taking over all the Light Railways in that 
sector, remaining there until armistice was signed, then stationed at Audun-Ie-Roman. Sailed from Brest. 
France, for home May 28 .1919. Discharged at Camp Bowie (Texas I June 26. 1919. Present address, 
Walla Walla, Washington. 

GLENN O. ROSS 
Entered the service October 4, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Head- 
quarters Co.. 353rd Infantry. 89th Division. Transferred to Camp Merritt I N. J. I March, 1918, as 
Company Clerk with Co. "E." 7th Infantry, 3rd Division. Sailed for France April 4, 1918. Stationed at 
Chaumont. France. First front line action was in the Chauteau Thiery sector, then Belleau Wood. 
Wounded June 1, 191S . by machine gun bullet ; also gassed. After being pronounced dead was 
left where he fell for two days, then picked up and sent to Base Hospital. Spent seven months in dif- 
ferent hospitals. Recovering from wounds arrived in U. S. April 6, 1919. Discharged April 11, 1919. 
Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

GLENN U. CALDWELL 
Enlisted in the U. S. Army July 10. 1916, at St. Louis Mo. Served six months on Mexican border. 
Sailed for France May, 1917, with 1st Division. Took part in five major operations. Discharged August 
30, 1921. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

SERGEANT HARRY T. CAVANACH 
Entered the service July 15, 1918. Sent to Foi't Hayes (Kansas I for training. Assigned to Motor 
Transport Corps, Fort Sam Houston I Texas) September 16, 1918. and remained there until the conclusion 
of the war. Discharged at Fort Sam Houston (Texas) April 17. 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

IVAN L. DENNIS 
Enlisted in the service July 19, 1917. Assigned to Co. "B." 117th Ammunition Train, Rainbow 
Division. Overseas in the service eighteen months, during which time took part in following: Luneville 
sector. Baccarat sector, Champagne-Maine defensive, Chauteau Thiery front, Toul sector, St. Mihiel of- 
fensive. Meuse- Argonne offensive, Army of Occupation in Germany. Discharged May 15, 1919. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

VERN LEWIS YOUNG 
Enlisted in the U. S. Navy at Houston, Texas, May 29. 1917. In training at San Francisco, Calif. 
Transferred to Mare Island (California) Hospital for duty February 15, 1918, as Hospital Corpsman, 1st 
Class. Assigned to U. S. S. Mallory April 19, 1918. (The Mallory was in the first convoy that landed 
troops in France.) Made fourteen round trips across the Atlantic ocean, carrying an average of 2.200 
soldiers each trip during the war. After the armistice carried an average of 900 sick and wounded each 
trip besides quota of returning soldiers. Transferred to Brooklyn Navy Yards September 15, 1919, aboard 
the LI. S. S. Hartford. Discharged at Dallas, Texas, October 6, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

FRANCIS T. PROVOST 

Enlisted in the Army April 15, 1917. Assigned to Co. "B." 110th Field Signal Battalion. 35th Divi- 
sion. Served in the Vosges sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne and Verdun. Earned two service 
chevrons. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

MARION T. BURTON 

Enlisted in the Kansas National Guard, LT. S. A., May 23. 1917, in Field Hospital No. 2. On August 
5, 1917, became a part of 140th Field Hospital. 110th Sanitary Train. 35th Division. Going in the front 
lines of battle in France in June, 1918, took part in the following: Wessenling sector June30- August 14, 
1918. Guardman Sector August 14-September 12. 1918. St. Mihiel offensive September 12 to 16, 1918. 
Meuse-Argonne offensive September 26-October 1. 1918. Verdun eector October 14-November 6, 1918. Dis- 
charged at Camp Funston (Kansas) May 9, 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

HERMAN T. MURRY 
Enlisted in the service July 11, 1917, with Co. "B," 117th Ammunition Train, 42nd Division. Went 
to Camp Mills ( N. Y.) August, 1917. Sailed for France October. 1917. First engagement in France 
was Lunneville sector February 27-March 22, 1918. Then Baccarat sector. Champagne-Marne defensive, 
Aisne-Marne defensive, Fisme. Toul sector, St. Mihiel offensive. Meuse-Argonne offensive, Army of Oc- 
cupation in Germany. Sailed from Brest, France, for U. S. April 20. 1919. Discharged at Camp Funston 
(Kansas) May 15. 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 



One Hindred Twenty-one 




1- ARTHUR O. PHELPS 
2— WAYNE SILCOTT 
3— THOMAS E. HORN 
4--ALVIN S. BROOKS 



5- CECIL D. WALLINGFORD 

6— GERALD HAGAN 

7— SERGEANT WILLIAM FRED CARDIN 

8— JAMES L. BAKER 



One Hundred Twenty-two 



JAMES L. BAKER 

Enlisted in the U. S. A. April 10, 1917. Sent to Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Then Charleston 
(South Carolina I. Attached to 2nd Co., C. A. C. Left Charleston July 26. 1917, for Newport (R. I.), 
then to Fort Adams. Sailed from New York City August 24, 1917, for overseas via Halifax, Canada, and 
Liverpool, England. Landed at La Haive. France, September 11. 1917. On March 21. 1918, went into 
an active sector and remained in active service at the front until the armistice was signed. Present 
address, Altamont, Kansas. 

SERGEANT WILLIAM FRED CARDIN 
After entering the service was assigned to 313th Cavalry and stationed at Del Rio (Texas). Later 
was transferred to 69th Field Artillery and stationed at Camp Knox (Kentucky). Discharged from the 
service at Camp Knox iKy. I December 21, 1918. Present address. Miami, Okla. 

WAYNE SILCOTT 
Enlisted in the service July 14, 1917. Assigned to Co "B," 117th Ammunition Train. Served over- 
seas as follows : Luneville sector. Baccarat sector. Champagne-Marne defensive, Aisne-Marne offensive. 
Toul sector. St. Mihiel offensive. Meuse-Arganne offensive. Army of Occupation in Germany. Discharged 
at Camp Funston (Kansas) May 15, 1919. Present address, Altamont, Kansas. 

ARTHUR O. PHELPS 

Enlisted in the Navy May 14, 1918. In training at Great Lakes (III.) three weeks. Assigned to 
V. S. S. Arkansas, which was a part of the 6th Rattle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet during the 
war. Present at the surrender of the German fleet November 21, 1918. Later served on the U. S. S. 
Aeolus, transport, making six round trips from France with returning American soldiers. Discharged at 
St. Louis September, 1919. Present address. Altamont. Kansas. 

CECIL D. WALLINGFORD 
Entered the service May 15. 1918. at Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Assigned to 313th Cavalry and 
sent to Camp Del Rio (Texasi. Later transferred to 69th Field Artillery and stationed at Camp Knox 
(Kentucky). Present address, Altamont, Kansas. 

GERALD HOGAN 
Entered the service May 24, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas) and Camp Dodge (Iowa). 
Assigned to Co. "I." 349th Infantry, 88th Division. Landed in France September 19, 191S. Left France 
for U. S. May 19, 1919. Discharged June 12, 1919. Present address. Altamont, Kansas. 

ALVIN S. BROOKS 
Entered the service September 8. 1918. In training at Camp Funston I Kansas I. Assigned to 15th 
Co., 164th Depot Brigade. October 24. 1918. was transferred to Co. "G." 29th M. G. Bn.. 10th Division. 
Sent to the K. S. A. C. at Manhattan. Kansas, January 6, 1919. Discharged February 5, 1919. Present 
address. Wichita. Kansas. 



THOMAS E. HORN 
Entered the service latter part of 1918, stationed at Camp Funston ( Kansas). 
Co., 164th Depot Brigade. Present address, Altamont, Kansas. 



Assigned to 29th 



TOUJOURS LE MEME 



No matter how wise or how foolish 

The company's cook may be. 

When down at the table we're seated. 

Two things we all plainly can see ; 

When we look at the chow 

There's the bosom of sow. 

And beans — beans — beans. 

If quartered in city or country. 

The cook never misses his aim ; 
If messing in swamp or on mountain. 
Two things will remain quite the same ; 
Though it may cause a row, 
We get bosom of sow. 
And beans -beans — beans. 



When tasks for the day are all ended. 

And weary are body and brain. 

Small matter it makes if we're eating 

Indoors, or outside in the rain. 

The cook makes his bow 

With the bosom of sow. 

And beans— beans — beans. 

Of all that I've learned in the Army. 
This fact I am sure I know well — - 
And others are certain to tell you — 
The soldier's worst picture of hell 
Is thrice daily chow 
With the bosom of sow. 
And beans — beans— beans. 



-Vance C. Criss. Corp.. Engrs. 



One Hundred Twenty-three 




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1 - OMER H. KEPHART 
2— ADAM NICKEL 

3 KEITH T. BELL 

4 -ADDISON D. OWENS 



5— EAHL JOHNSTON 

6- -HARRY A. MURPHY 

7 ORAN B. WHITE 

8— CHARLES F. MARSHALL 



One Hundred Twenty-four 



KEITH T. BELL 
Entered the service September 10, 1917. At Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Headquarters Co.. 
353rd Infantry. 89th Division. Went to Camp Mills (New York^ May 25. 1918. Sailed from Hohoken, 
N. J., with the Division June 4, 1918. for France via Liverpool, England. Landed at La Havre. France, 
last of June. Going into the trenches in the Limey-Flirey sector August 5, 1918. Was in the battles of 
St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne sectors. Present address, Chetopa, Kansas. 

OMER H. KEPHART 
Entered the service August 25, 191S. Served in the Medical Corps at Fort Omaha (Neb.) as Ward 
Master. Discharged January 15. 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

ADDISON D. OWENS 
Entered the service October 8. 191S. at Pittsburg. Kansas. Discharged December 15, 1918. Present 
address. Parsons, Kansas. 

ORAN B. WHITE 
Enlisted July, 1917, in Truck Co. No. 2, 117th Ammunition Train. 42nd Division ( Rainbow i . 
Sailed for overseas August. 1917. Was with the Division in France and occupation of Germany. Dis- 
charged from service May, 1918. Present address, Faulkner, Kansas. 

CHARLES FRED MARSHALL 
Enlisted May 7, 1918, with 66th Engineers, Jefferson Barracks (Missouri). Sailed for France June 
30, 1918. Served with Transportation Corps in France for one year. Left for U, S. June 30, 1919. Dis- 
charged at Camp Dodge (Iowa) July 16, 1920. Present address. New Franklin, Mo. 

EARL JOHNSTON 
Enlisted May 21, 1917, in 140th Field Hospital Corps, 35th Division. Served with the Division in 
France. Discharged May 9. 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

ADAM NICKEL 
Entered the service September 19, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co. 
"K." 353rd Infantry. 89th Division. On March 25, 1918, was transferred to Co. "L," 140th Infantry. 35th 
Division. Sailed for France, April 25, 1918. Took part in the following battles : Vosges. July 16- Sep- 
tember 1, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, September 26-October 1. 1918; Tavannas sector, October 14 until signing 
of armistice. Discharged May 13, 1919. at Camp Funston (Kansas). Present address. Chetopa, Kansas. 

CORPORAL HARRY A. MURPHY 
In training at Camp Kearney I California). Assigned to Co. "K," 30th Regiment Infantry. 3rd 
Division. Was with Division in the Aisne-Marne defensive July 22-27, 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive 
and in the Vesle sector. Gassed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive October 10, 1918. Present address. 
Chetopa. Kansas. 



THE TANK 



Oh, she's nothin' sweet to look at an' no symphony 
to hear ; 
She ain't no pome of beauty, that's a cinch- — 
She howls like Holy Jumpin' when a fellow shifts 
a gear. 
But she's sure a lovey-dovey in a pinch 
Just head her straight for Berlin and no matter 
what the road. 
Or whether it's just trenches, trees and mud. 
And I" guarantee she'll get there with her precious 
human load 
And her treads a-drippin* red with German blood. 
Oh, you tank! tank! tank! 
She's a pippin, she's a daisy, she's a 
dream ! 
Where the star-shells are a-ligbtin" up the thickest 
thickest of the fightin.' 

She'll be sailin' like a demon through the 
gleam. 

If the way is rough and stony and the vantage 
point is far, 
Just slip her into high and hang on tight. 
Shove your food down on the throttle and to hell 
with all the jar — 
She'll take you clean from here to out of sight. 
'Course you've got to clean and scrub her same as 
any piece of tin 
That's worth the smoke to blow her up the flue : 
But just whisper to her gently, pat her back and 



yell "Giddap !" 
And there ain't a thing she wouldn't do for you. 
Oh, you tank ! tank ! tank ! 
She's a Lulu, she's a cuckoo ! 
She's the goods ! 
When the Boches see you comin*. they will set the 
air to hummin" 

A-wavin' of their legs to l-each the woods. 

When the last great rush is over and the last grim 
trench is past, 
She will roll in high right through old Berlin 
town, 
Her grim old sides a-shakin' and her innerds raisin* 
hob. 
Intent on runnin' Kaiser William down. 
Then she'll find him and we'll bind him to her 
grindin*. tearin' treads. 
And we'll start her rollin' on the road to hell. 
Shove her into high and leave her. tie her bloomin* 
throttle down — 
We'll say she's lived her life and lived it well. 
Oh, you tank ! tank ! tank ! 
She's a devil ! She's a dandy ! 
She's sublime ! 
When her grimy hide goes hurlin' through the 
dirty streets of Berlin. 

Watch the goose step change to 
Yankee double time ! 
—Richard C. Colburn. Sgt.. Tank Corps. 



One Hundred Twenty-five 




fejfc 







1 -SERGEANT JOHN L. RICKETTS 
2— LYMAN A. WISE 
3— CLARENCE W. COX 
4— ALVA F. HUCKE 



5- JACK L. WOLVERTON 
6— FRED H. HUCKE 
"--WILLIAM L. MARTIN 
8— OWEN HOHN 



One Hundred Twenty-six 



WILLIAM LEONARD MARTIN 
Entered the service April 29, 1918, with 66th Engineers. Stationed and in training at Camp 
Laurel (Md. ). Sailed for France June 30, 1918. Landed at Brest. A few hours after landing was run 
over by a truck and confined to the Base Hospital at Brest for two months. Joining the 66th Engineers 
again at Montarge. France. Later volunteered for service in Northern Russia, being stationed at Murmansk 
and Sorka, Russia. Left Northern Russia July 27, 1919. for U. S. via Brest. France. Discharged August 
29. 1919, at Camp Taylor iKy.i. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



SERGEANT JOHN L. RICKETTS 
28, 1918. Stationed and in training at Gamp Funston I Kansas). 



As- 



Entered the service March 

signed to duty at Base Hospital. Sailed for France November, 1918, and served at the Base Hospital at 
Brest, France. Discharged September 28, 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

JACK L. WOLVERTON 
Enlisted May 23, 1917. in 140th Field Hospital. In training at Camp Doniphan (Oklahoma!. Sailed 
in May. 1918, for France. Served in France in the 140th Field Hospital. 110th Sanitary Train, 35th Divi- 
sion. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas) May 10, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



CORPORAL OWEN HOHN 
Entered the service June 24, 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston I Kansas I. Assigned 
to Co. "M." 70th Regiment. Infantry. Discharged January 28. 1919. Present address. Mound Valley, 
Kansas. 



LYMAN A. WISE 
Entered the service September 6, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 14th 
Co., 164th Depot Brigade. Six weeks later transferred to Co. "H," 41st Infantry. Discharged June 21, 
1919. Present addrss, Mound Valley, Kansas. 

CLARENCE W. COX 

Entered the service August 8, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas) and Camp Logan 
(Texas). Sailed for France via Liverpool, England. September 1, 1918. Assigned to Base Hospital Corps, 
stationed at Mevs, and Boulzes. France. Paralyzed while in the service in France. Sailed for U. S. as a 
casual May 14, 1919. Discharged July 21, 1919. Present address. Mound Valley, Kansas. 



to Co. "K." 353rd 
Discharged July 6. 



FRED H. HUCKE 
Entered the service September 19, 1917. at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned 
Infantry. S9th Division. Transferred May 3, 1918. to 52nd Co., 164th Depot Brigade. 
1918. Present address. Mound Valley, Kansas. 

ALVA FRANK HUCKE 
Enlisted in the service October 3, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas), until sailing for 
overseas February, 1918, from Hoboken, N. J. Reached St. Nazaire, France, March 11, 1918. Sent to the 
front lines in April. Wounded by a machine gun bullet July 20, 191S, in the fighting at Ballou Wood. 
Taken to a Field Hospital, then to a Base Hospital in France and was returned to U. S. November 7, 1918. 
Discharged at Camp Funston i Kansas) April 4, 1919. Present address. Mound Valley, Kansas. 



TRENCH MUD 



We have heard of Texas gumbo 
And the mud in the Phillipines, 

Where, if we had legs like Jumbo, 
The mud would cover our jeans. 

But never did we get a chance 

To feel real mud till we hit France. 

Our shoes are deep in it. 
We often sleep in it. 
We almost weep in it — 

It everywhere ; 

We have to fight in it. 

And vent our spite in in. 

We look a sight in it. 

But we don't care! 



The mud that lies in No Man's Land 

Is as thick on the other side, 
And where the Germans Make their stand 

Is where we'll make them slide. 
For our hob-nailed shoes will force a way, 
And we'll knock them cold — for the U. S. A. 

Though we must eat in it, 
Wash our feet in it. 
Try to look neat in it. 

This mud and slime ; 
Though we get sore in it. 
Grumble and roar in it. 
We'll win the war in it 

In our good time I 

^John J. Curtin. Sgt. Inf. 



One Hundred Twenty-seven 




1 ROY I). HOOBLER 
2— HOBERT HUFF 
3- RALPH E. TRASTER 
I F. M. STALLARD 



5 JAMES LUTHER HORN 

6 EAP.L D. REYNOLDS 
7— ISAAC M. HOUSE 
8— HENRY R. WILSON 



One Hundred Twenty-eisrht 



EARL DOUGLAS REYNOLDS 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army at Kansas City. Mo., February, 1918. Was sent to Fort Myer (Va.) 
Transferred to Washington Barracks. Assigned to Co. No. 1, S. A. R. D. Engineers. Joined the A. E. F. 
in France August. 1918. Was in England and Ireland on special duty. Returned to the United States 
July, 1919. Mustered out of the service at Camp Taylor (Ky.) Present address. Houston. Texas. 



RALPH E. TRASTER 

Entered the service September 21, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to 
Headquarters Co., 353rd Infantry, 89th Division. Sailed for overseas with the Division and participated 
in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, and in the Army of Occupation in Germany. Present 
address. Edna, Kansas. 

ROBERT HUFF 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army. Served with the 66th Engineers in France eleven months. Returned 
to United States July 15, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 



J\MES LUTHER HORN 

Entered the service October 6. 19 IS. In training at Camp Funston t Kansas). Present address. 
Present address Houston, Texas. 



ROLLIE B. HOOBLE 

Enlisted in U. S. Army from Iowa. Served overseas one year. Present address. Coffeyville. Kansas. 



MRS. PAUL CHRISTMAN 

When the Labette County Chanter. Red Cross, was organized Mrs. 
Christman became one of the active workers, especially in the Surgical 
Dressing Department, being one of the sixty workers of this depart- 
ment to earn the right to wear the Red Cross on their headdress. Mrs. 
Christman was chosen as a member on the first committee of the 
Nursing Department and rendered valuable assistance in this branch 
of the Red Cross work. Present address is Wichita. Kansas. 





LIEUTENANT ARTHUR G. McKNIGHT 

Enlisted in the Tank Service. U. S. Army, April IS. 1918. In 
training at U. S. Tank Training Station, Camp Colt. Gettysburg, Pa. 
Commissioned Lieutenant in September. 1918, and assigned to Re- 
cruiting duty at Philadelphia. Pa., for the Tank Service. Received 
his discharge at Camp Dix (N. J.I December. 1918. Present address. 
Kansas City, Mo. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. McKnight, reside 
in Parsons. Kansas. 



One Hundred Twenty-nine 




1 -CHESTER L. LURKE 
2— CLAIR F. HAVERFIELD 
:: CLARENCE H. KESSLER 
I R. V. WASHABAUGH 



5 ANSON C. CARSON 
6— LOYAL D. BOON 

7 LLOYD E. MATHIS 

8 OSCAR F. STURM 



One Hundred Thirty 



CAPTAIN RALPH E. BAKER 

Enlisted in Troop B 1st Cavalry,. January 20. 1914. On duty Mexican border, New Mexico and 
Arizona. Assisted in rounding up the Appache Kid and his band of renigade Indians. Changed station 
to Fort Sill, Okla.. 1896, to guard Geroniir.o and his 1 and at that station. Participated in the Cuban 
campaign of Spanish- American War. 1S9S. Stormrd San Juan Hill with Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Re- 
turning to TJ. S. A., and in 1900 sailed for the Phillipine Islands, served there for two years, returning 
to U. S. A., stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In 1907 returned to the Phillipine Islands for two 
year detail. Discharged. February 13. 1910. Came to Parsons, March, 1910. Entered the Kansas Na- 
tional Guard 1916 as 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry. Served with Troop A. Kansas Cavalry on Mexican 
border, I ting mustered out of Federal service March 8, 1917. Detailed on recruiting duty April 15, 
1917. by Adjutant General Chas. I. Martin. K. N. G. Enlisted Field Hospital Corps in Parsons, also 
Motor Transportation Corps, Parsons, Kansas. Organized Troop C. 1st Kansas Cavalry, Dodge City, 
Kansas. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant June 20, 1917, and to Captain July 30, 1917. Entered Federal 
service August 5, 1917. in command of Troop A, 1st Kansas Cavalry, which troop was appointed Head- 
quarters Troop. 35th Division. Camp Doniphan, Okla. February 1, 1918, transferred to 303rd 
Cavalry, Camp Stanley, Texas. August 15, 19 IS, 303rd Cavalry was transferred to the 52nd and 53rd 
Field Artillery. Remained with the 52nd F. A. as Regimental Supply Officer. Attended the School of 
Artillery Fire at Fort Still. Okla.. and Cavalry Officers Training School at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, at 
close of which was assigned to the 1th U. S. Cavalry, Camp Sam Fordyce, Texas. Ordered to Camp 
Travis, Texas, for honorable discharge. September 16, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

CHESTER L. BURKE 

Enlisted in U. S. Aimy June 4, 1917. In training at Camp Doniphan (Oklahoma). Assigned to Co. 
"B." 110th Engineers. 35th Division. Sailed from Hob ok en, N. J.. May 2, 1918, for overseas. Landed at 
Brest, France, May 10, 1918. Saw service with the British Army in the American sector 27-June 6, 1918. 
Was in the following sectors: Alsace. July 1 to August 31, 1918. St. Mihiel offensive. September 12 to 
September 16, 19 IS. Meuse-Argonne, September 26 to October 1, 1918. Verdun sector. October 15 to 
November 6. 1918. Sailed from Brest, France, for U. S. April 10. 1919. Discharged at Camp Funs ton 
(Kansas I May 3, 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

ANSON C. CARSON 

Entered the service February 13. 1917. In training at Camp Funston. Assigned to Co. "F," 32nd 
Engineers. Served in France with the 32nd Engineers. Present address. Dennis. Kansas. 

LLOYD E. MATH1S 

Enlisted September 6. 1918. Stationed and in training at Camp Funston I Kansas I . Assigned to 
Co. "H." 41st Infantry. 10th Division. Present address. Parsons, Kansas. 

LOYAL DANLEY BOON 

Enlisted in the U. S. Army June 27, 1917, at Akron, Ohio. Assigned to Medical Corps. Served 
during the World War. Discharged June 27. 1919. Present address. Chetopa. Kansas. 

CLAIR F. HAVERFIELD 

Entered the service September 6, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas) Assigned to 29th 
Field Artillery Band as 1st Class Musician. Discharged January 29, 1919. Present address, Parsons, 
Kansas. 

VIRGIL R. WASHABAUGH 

Entered the service Stptember 19, 1917. In training at Camp Doniphan (Oklahoma). Assigned to 
140th Infantry. 35th Division. Served with 35th Division in France. Discharged May 13. 1919. Present 
address. Parsons. Kansas. 

OSCAR FREDERICK STURM 

Entered the service May 6, 1918, at Jefferson Parracks i Missouri i. Assigned to Co. "E." 66th 
Engineers. Served one year in France. Discharged at Camp Dodge (Iowa). Present address. Parsons, 
Kansas. 

CLARENCE H. KESSLER 

Enlisted in Coast Artillery. U. S. A.. April 24, 1917. Assigned to list. C. A. C. and stationed at 

Fort Monroe (Virginia). Left Newport News iVa.i July 17, 1918. Landed in France July 31, 1918. 

Assigned to 61st C. A. C. Stationed at St. Nazaire, Franc . From there was assigned to the First Army 

Corps as a reserve. Discharged at Camp Funston (Kansas) March 24, 1919. Present address. Altamont, 
Kansas. 



One Hundred Thirty-one 









1- SERGEANT JAMES W. WRIGHT 
2 EUGENE P. FULTON 
3— SERGEANT LOIS LOWE 
1 HARRY H. NEWMAN 



5— JOHNNIE DODD 
6— LON JOE HOI-MrS 
7— HENRY LYULE 
S-- CLAUDE W. LEVIS 



One Hmidreil Thirty-two 



SERGEANT LOIS LOWE 
Entered the service October 27. 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Machine 
Cun Co.. then transferred to Co. "E." 317th Ammunition Train. 02nd Division. This Company had charge 
of the Ammunition Dump of 167th Field Artillery. Fort de Facq. France, for 53 days. For 21 days during 
chat time were under heavy bombardment, and during that time handled 61.000 rounds of artillery pro- 
jectors. 19,317 charges of powder. 62.620 fuses. 89,7fi0 primers, a total of 1.789.280 pounds of ammunition. 
Honorably discharged at Camp Funston I Kansas I Ma- ch 19. 1919. Present address. Parsons. Kansas. 

JOHNNIE DODD 
Entered the service July 17, 1918. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Head- 
q- alters Co., 805th Pioneer Infantry. Sent to Camp Upton (New York) August 27. 1918. Sailing from 
New York for France September 2, 1918. Landed at La Havre, France, September 19, 1918. Immediately 
roing to Rolampont. Haute Marne : after ten days there was sent to the front lines, being stationed at 
Clermont-en- Argon ne. On October 21, 1918 the Company received its "Baptism of Fire" from German 
Airmen dropping bombs. Returned to U. S. A.. June 27, 1919. Discharged July 7. 1919. Present address, 
Parsons, Kansas. 

HENRY LYDLE 
Entered the service June 20. 1918. In training at Camp Funston ( Kansas). Sailed for overseas 
August 29, 1918. While in France served with 5th Depot Brigade. Served in France eleven months. Dis- 
charged at Camp Dodge < Iowa I July 26, 1919. Present address, Chetopa. Kansas. 

LON JOE HOLMES 
Entered the service October 1, 1918, at Lawrence, Kansas. Assigned to Co. "E" Infantry, U. S. A. 
Discharged November 26, 1918. Present address, Chetopa, Kansas. 

CLAUDE W. LEWIS 
Entered the service July 16, 1918. Assigned to Co. 11, Depot Brigade. Discharged September 2, 1919. 
Present address, Parsons. Kansas. 

HARRY H. NEWMAN 
Entered the service October 27, 1917. In training at Camp Funston (Kansas). Assigned to Co "E," 
317th Ammunition Train. 92nd Division. Served in France until conclusion of the war. Present address, 
Chetopa, Kansas. 

SERGEANT JAMES W. WRIGHT 
Entered the service June 15, 1918. In training at Quindaro, Kansas. Then transferred to Camp 
Grant (Illinois I. Assigned to Headquarters Co. 803rd Pioneer Infantry. Sailed from New York for 
France, September 17, 1918. Took part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Arrived back in U. S. A., July 
18, 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge (Iowa) July 26, 1919. Present address, Parsons. Kansas. 

EUGENE P. FULTON 
Entered the service July 30, 1918. In training at Camp Travis (Texas). Transferred to Camp 
Taylor (Kentucky) August 21, 1918. Assigned to the 801st Infantry. Sent to Camp Merritt (New Jersey) 
September 1, 1918. Sailed from New York for France September S. 1918. Arriving at Brest, France, 
was sent into the Verdun sector, remaining there until November 24, 1918. Left Brest. France, May 3. 
1919, for U. S. A. Discharged at Camp Travis (Texas) June 17, 1919. Present address. Parsons, Kansas, 



CORP'RAL'S CHEVRONS 

Oh, the General with his shiny stars, leading a 

parade, 
The Colonel and the Adjutant a-sportin' of their 

braid. 
The Major and the Skipper — none of 'em look so 

fine 
As a newly minted corp'ral comin' down the line! 

Oh, the Bishop In his mitre, pacin' up the aisle, 
The Governor, frock-coated, with a votes-for-women 

smile, 
The Congressman, the Mayor, aren't in it, I opine. 
With a newly minted corp'ral comin' down the 

line ! 



One Hundred Thirty-three 




"Reading Their Shirts." Getting rid of cooties in the absence of steam disinfectors. Left to right: 
Pvt. John Heldenmenger, Pvt. John H. Meeham, Pvt. 1st CI., S. J. Peters and Pvt. James Merwick. all 
of the 1 32nd Ambulance Co., 108th Sanitary Train, reading their shirts and boiling their clothes on 
the >"utheastern slope of Hill No. 373. Shells were coming over their heads into the valley below when 
this photograph was taken. Near Les Eparges, Mens.-, France, October 30, 1918. 




35th Division Hdqrs., France 



Meuse, F 



One Hundred Thirty-four 



Gknrral iSnatrr nf iCahrtir (Umtutti 
f ariin^anta in Worth liar 



Abell, Roy Francis 
Ackerson, John 
Adair, Russell K. 
Adams, Arthur 
Adams, Clarence Cecil 
Adams, Elza Louis 
Adams. .1. Harry 
Adams, Richard 
Adamson. Truby II. 
Adler. Harry 
Agnew, Frank Thomas 
Agostina, Gilbert 
Ailes, M. I). 
Albrecht, Edward 
Alexander, Chile 
Alexander, Hosea L. 
Alexander, William Tate 
Alfred, Burton Otis 
Allen. Clifford .lames 
Allen, Jesse 
Allison, Clarence Earl 
Allison, Franklin 
Allison, Robert E. 
Alloway, Clifford Lee 
Alvis, Ralph H. 
Anderson, Alvin 
Anderson, Benjamin 
Anderson, C. R. 
Anderson, Carl L. 
Anderson, Chester 
Anderson, George A. 
Anderson, H. F. 
Anderson, Irvin 
Anderson, Lawrence Baxter 
Andrews, Uren 
Anthon, Edmund Howard 
Amies, Benton Harlan 
Armstrong, Omar 
Armstrong, William Burge 
Arnett, Herbert 
Arnold, Nathan Bobby 



Arnold, William T. 
Asbell. Frank 
Asbell, Harold P. 
Atchley, Howard 
Atkins, Charles Seth 
Atkinson, Charles 
An Buchon, Cletus W. 
Auvinge, August Ka\ niond 
Auvinge, John (1. 
Avers, Maurice 
Ayers, Lester C. 
Ayers, Maurice F. 
Babb, Herman 
Babcock, Charles William 
Babcock, Dewey Z. 
Bacchus, Leslie J. 
Bailey, Frank John 
Bailey, George Franklin 
Baile>, Homer Franklin 
Bailey, Owen W. 
Baird, Dow Kaj 
Baird, Harry 
Baker, Herbert 
Baker, James L. 
Baker, Milton L. 
Baker, B. Hallie 
Baker. Ralph E. 
Raker, T. J. 
Balling, John T. 
Ballough, Ray Allen 
Rallough, Thomas 
Banzet, Alberl William 
Banzet, Ernest 
Barber, Charles Brown 
Barber, Silas Earl 
Barcus, Lawrence 
Barker, Earl E. 
Barnes, Frank 
Barnes, George S. 
Barnes, Harold H. 
Barnes, J. Vernon 



One Hundred Thirty-five 



Burnett, Roy 
Barnett, Clayburn 
Barron, Lawrence 
Bartlett, Horace Baylor 
Bartlett, Oren 
Bartlett, William H. 
Burton, Andy Edward 
Barton, .John Henry 
Bass. Emmett Courtney 
Bates, C. W. 
Bates, Otis Cook 
Bates, Raymond Dyke 
Maty, Lee 

Baugher, .lames Wallace 
Baxter, William Carl 
Beach, David 
Beach, Boss Homer 
Bcamer, Layton George 
Beamer, Samuel Ray 
Beard, Arley Elton 
Beasley, Edmond Austin 
Beasley, Henry Walter 
Beasley, James Newton 
Beaver, Eugene R. 
Beaver, .1. A. 

Beaver, S. Ray 

Becker, Elmer 

Beckman, Clifford C. 

Beethan, Herbert Howard 

Bciderwell, Ear] Heed 

Belknap, William 

Bell, Alexander B. Jr. 

Bell. Gussie Chalmer 

Bell, Keith T. 

Bell, Lambert 

Bell, Robert A. 

Beller, Audrey 

Beller, Clarence Elmer 

Beller, Edward 

Beller, Melvin Edgar 

Beller, William Audra 

Bemis, Karl 

Bender, Harve L. 

Bender, Vere William 

Benefield, Otis 

Bendure, Harve Leonard 

Bennett, Charles F. 

Bennett, M. Robert 

Bennett, Oscar Nelson 

Berentz, Bryan Arthur 

Berg, Joseph 

Berlin. W. B. 

Bernard. Hugh 



Berry, Oscar Boland 

Best. O. W 

Bickford, Erroll 

Bickford, Nathan B. 

Bickle, Ellis T. 

Bicknell, Edgar S. 

Bicknell, John B. 

Billelo, Frank H. 

Billings, George Edward 

Billingsley, George Franklin 

Binkley, Benjamin F. 

Bird, Charles 

Bird, George Thaddius 

Birt, Boy H. 

Bishop, Clarence Wayne 

Bishop, Raymond Parris 

Bisnett, John 

Bitsko, Joseph 

Bitsko, Michael K. 

Blanchwell, Emmett K. 

Blackwell, Garnet! Albert 

Blaich, Fred William 

Blair, Boy Thomas 

Blake, Albert S. 

Blake, Charles Andrew 

Blake, James 

Blaker, Clarence C. 

Blaker, Linn 1). 

Bla- Ion, SI. Joseph 

Blemens, Lyman 

Blevins, James F. 

Blevins, Otis 

Blish, George L. 

Bocker, Robert Francis 

Boelens, Cornelius Andrew 

Bohn, Ernest C. 

Bolds. Van 

Boles, Charles Lee 

Bolinger, Elwyn F. 

Bonar, Bayard B. 

Bonhoffer, Car] 

Bonne, Earl 

Bonne, Ewing 

Bonner, B. Thomas 

Bonner, Kmmon 

Bonner, Griffith 

Booker, Morton 

Boon, Loyal Danley 

Bordine, Walter 

Bossi, John I - '. 

Boston, Van 

Bour, Fred John 



One Hundred Thirty. six 



Bourquin, Boy 

Bowman, Glenn T. 

Bowman, Harold B. 

Bowman, Harry Floyd 

Bowman, Homer 

Bowser. Arthur \. 

Bowser, Ellis Ellsworth 

Boyd, Kirk 

Boyd, Ralph 

Bradley. George Washington 

Brady, W. R. 

Bragg, Aidna 

Bramlett, Harvey W. 

Bramwell, George M. 

Brandon, W. L. 

Brannan, William Edwin 

Braucht, Clan nee 

Braucht, Glen B. 

Braugh, Oliver Audley 

Braunsdorf, Harry F. 

Bray, John 

Bredine, Lester F. 

Brehm, Arthur 

Brehui. William 

Brennan, W. E. 

Brewer, J. L. 

Brewster, Baymond B. 

Brewster, Roger B. 

Brickey, Herbert 

Bride, John F. 

Bridges, Joseph I.ee 

Briggs, Cleve S. 

Briggs, Eugene 

Briggs, Joseph Earl 

Britton, Charles Alonzo 

Britton, Donald 

Britton, Paul 

Brock, Joe Nelson 

Brooks, Alvin Stanley 

Brooks, James L. 

Brown, A. G. 

Brown, Clarence Leonard 

Brown, Earl Vernon 

Brown, Edwin Lloyd 

Brown, John Burson 

Brown, John Carl 

Brown, Karl 

Brown, B. S. 

Brown, Seth Grant 

Brown, W. E. 

Broyles, Jesse B. 

Bruce, Bert 

Bryan, William S. 



Bryant, Ode 
Bryant, Harold William 
Bryant, Box Davis 
Bryner, Ralph 
Buckley, Charles Bernard 
Bufiin, William H. 
Bunce, William Russell 
Bunten, Daniel .1. 
Bunten, J. C. 
Burg, Arthur Mason 
Burge, Stanley T. 
Burgess, J. E. 
Burke, Chester L. 
Burkhardt, William Henry 
Burks, Presley Berl 
Burmaster, William Carl 
Burner, Read B. 
Burnette, Edgar Neal 
Burnette, Wax ne Eugene 
Burns, Basil Levi 
Burns, Harvey L. 
Burns, Joseph Patrick 
Burr, Walter 
Burrel, Herbert 
Burris, Carl 
Burris, Cecil 
Burris, Curtis E. 
Burris, I ennie 
Burris, Baymond 
Burris, Wiley Adam 
Burton, Bert 
Burton. Marion F. 
Burton, Bollie C. 
Busby, Paul 
Busby, William Sinn 
Buser, Frederick Newton 
Rush. Charles D. 
Bush, Bay 
Bushong, Ezram L. 
Buvinger, Floyd II. 
Byers, G. C. 
Byrum, Dow L. 
Cade. Calvin E. 
Cadmus, Walter Gordon 
Caldwell. Charles Dayton 
Caldwell. Dalton L. 
Caldwell. Earl W, 
Caldwell, George Myer 
Caldwell, Glenn U. 
Caldwell, Kenneth W. 
Calhoun, Thomas 
Caller, Fred W. 
Calloway, - 



One Hundred Thirty-seven 



Campbell, Alfred 
Campbell, Arthur C. 
Campbell, Charles C. 
Campbell, Courtney 
Campbell. Lloyd 
Campbell, Louis 
Campbell, Murray C. 
Campbell, Ralph 
Campbell, Raymond 
Campbell, Winfield Clark 
Canfield, Alba 
Canfield, Edward 
Canfield, Marion 
Canfield. Willard I. 
Cannady, Fred 
Canney, Elmer 
Cannon, Alfred Joseph 
Cantrell, Albert Logan 
Cardin, William Fred 
Cai'dwell. Harry L. 
Carey, Franklin R. 
Carey, Tim 
Carey, Walter R. 
Carl. Melvin 
Carl. Roy 

Carlton, John Harold 
Carpenter, Alfred Baker 
Carpenter, Edmund Sinnett 
Carpenter, John Carroll 
Can-, Byron II. 
Carr, Nolan W. 
Carroll, Charles 
Carson, Anson Clark 
('arson, Clyde F. 
Carson, John F. 
Carson, William Clarence 
Carter. Clyde 
Carter, Francis Edward 
Carter, Waller E. 
Carter, Walter F. 
Cartwright, Elisha R. 
Cartwright, John C. 
Cartwright, Handle 
Cary, Walter E. 
Cashman, Kenneth 
Cassity, Guy 
Cavanagh, Harry T. 
Cave. Howard drove 
Cavitte, Robert 
Caywood, William 
Cecil, Calvin Ray 
Cecil. Herbert 
Cecil, Neal 



Chambley, Louis E. 
Chandler, Harold 
Chaney, Ennnett Davis 
Chaney, James K. 
Chaney, William Ray 
Chansler, Arthur J. 
Chansler, Clarence W. 
Chansler, Lawrence W. 
Chapman, John W. 
Chapman, Robert A. 
Chase, Frank A. 
Cheney, Albert 
Childress, Charles M. 
Chowning, James Roy 
Christie, Roy 
Christman, Paul 
Christy, A. L. 
Christy. Ernest l> 
Christy. Raymond A. 
Cisco. Harry L. 
Clark, Clifford 
Clark. Harvey Ray 
(Hark, Kenneth 
Clark, Wilmoth N. 
Clarke, A. F. 
Clarke, Edward 
Clarke, Orville P. 
Clarke, Roy Basil 
Claxton, Clarence Clayton 
Clayworth, Paul M. 
Clemens, L. B. 
Clinger, Raymond C. 
Cloughley, Earl 
Coad, William Roy 
Cobb, Louis Ear] 
Cobb, Louis L. 
Cobb, Oren Clyde 
Coffin, W. I). 
Colburn, Harry (). 
Cole. Frank Lester 
Condon, Clifford 
Condy, George R. 
Connor, Jean 
Conway, Ralph Jack 
Cook, Carson 
Cook, Derrick 
Cook. Harvey D. 
Cook, Hester 
Cook, James R. Jr 
Cook, Louis Elliott 
Cook, Preston M. 
Cooper, Delbert 
Cooper, George Otis 



One Hundred Thirty-eight 



Cooper, Luther A. 

Cooper, Roy Benjamin 

Cooper, Thomas Earl 

Cooper, Virgil 

Cope, Byron Ellsworth 

Corbett, Ralph A. 

Corbett, Thomas Aloysius 

Cordry, Peter B. 

Corey, lieu I.. 

Cornelius, Louis 

Cornell, John C. 

Cornell, Stephen Andrew 

Corns, Harry 

Cory, Charles Henry 

Cory, Franklin Robert 

Cotton, Clyde Walter 

Cottonjin, Humphrey Hubert 

Cottonjin, Jasper 

Couch, Walter Owen 

Coulter, Fred Ernest 

Coulter, William Seth 

Courtney, George W. 

Courtney, John W. 

Cox, Charles 

Cox, Charles J. 

Cox, Clarence William 

Cox, Fred H. 

Cox, John Devereaux 

Cox, Samuel 

Cozine, Stephen Otis 

Crabtree, Tyne 

Crabtree, Wayne 

Cragg, Leo F. 

Grain, Obed Lorain 

Cramer, Oscar 

Crandall, Elbert Gordon 

Crane, Cleo 

Crane, Wilfred W. 

Cranford, Charles W. 

Crawford, Albert E. 

Crawford, Ernest Tinder 

Crawford, Walter C. 

Crayhon, Charles 

Crispell, Thomas 1'. 

Crockett, Andrew C. 

Crockett, Clyde 

Crockett, Everett 

Crockett, Ralph B, 

Crowder, James B. 

Cruse, John Edward 

Cruse, Vein 

Cummings, Dewey V. 

Cunningham, Chile T. 



Curnutte, Claude Robert 
Curry, Lewis Arthur 
Dahl.C.ust 
Daigh, Raymond 
Bairs, Roscoe 
Daniel, Horace Swetson 
Daniels, Clarence O. 
Danielson, David 
Darby, Clarence R. 
Darling, Charles Kimball 
Darling, Lee Claire 
Darling, Ray 
Daul, John F. 
Daviager, Floyd Berre 
David, Lester 
David. Orla G. 
David, William 
Davidson, Harry 
Davis, Bert Lester 
Davis, Byron 
Davis, Carl 
Davis, Carl Leo 
Davis, Eldred 
Davis, Ezra Thomas 
Davis, Fred 
Davis, Harry B. 
Davis, James Walter 
Davis, Otto 
Davis, Paul B. 
Davis, Ray 
Davis, Samuel M. 
Davis, Theodore P. 
Dawson, Abe 
Dawson, Jeff 
Dean, Jay H. 
Dean, Robert Ogden 
DeRolt, William Henry 
Decker, John H. 
Decker, Leo 
Deekerman, A. H. 
Decocq, Sherman Leopold 
Dedrich, John 
Dee, Paul 

DeJarnette, Reven Sims 
Delaney, Edward K. 
Dellasega, Joseph A. 
Dennis, Ivan L. 
Densmore, Henry J. 
Dent, Edward Clark 
Dent, Raleigh J. 
Deragowski, August 
Deragowski, John Leo 
DeWolf.Jay 



One Hundred Thirty-nine 



Dick, Frank Nelson 
Dickerson, Wynne 
Dickman, Alfred 11. 
Dickson. Douglas 
Dickson, Jeff 
Dietsche, Frank Marion 
Ditzler, Luther Herbert 
Dixon, Douglas J. 
Dixon, Otto 
Dobbs, Henry Allen 
Dodd, Clement L. 
liiidil, Courtney C. 
Dodd, Johnnie 
Dodd, Loren.Arlie 
Dodge, Herbert Clay 
Donaldson, Edwin 
Donaldson, Harry Leroy 
Donaldson, Ivan Joseph 
Donnellan, Robert F. 
Donnelly, Karl 
Doolittle, Benjamin F. 
Doolittle, Frank 
Dorcas, Allied 
Dorcas, Peter 
Dotson, Earl Floyd 
Doty John Gates 
Dougherty, William P. 
Doughman, Claude S. 
Doughman, Lyle Leighton 
Dow, Byrum 
Downs, Carl 
Downs, Harry B. 
Doyle, Harvey 
Drake, Morland W. 
Drake, Thomas E. 
Dramis, Alfred 
Diaper, Albert V. 
Dreher, Charles 
Dreher, Colon 
1 tiischer, Jesse J. 
Dresser, Ella W. 
Drybread, Prentis 
Dudley, Bernard M. 
Dugan, Cuba J. 
Dugan, Delbert 
Duke, James E. 
Dunham, John W. 
Dunning, Barton 
Duree, James Ernest 
Duvall, Deo Frederick 
Duvall, Paul Alexander 
Dwvcr, Patrick Bird 
Dwver, Patrick 



Dwyer, Paul 
Dye, James Edwin 
Dyer, Lester Ernest 
Dyer, Lloyd L. 
Dykeman, Ivan 
Edelen, Joseph Hubert 
Edison, Charles 
Edwards, Cedric Errol 
Eggleston, James Hiram 
Eisenbrandt, H. Lloyd 
Elder, A. James 
Elder, Clarence 
Elder, Wilbur J. 
Elledge, Charles 
Elledge, Charles J. 
Filer. Leslie 
Eller, Shannon Ernesl 
Elloitt, Jake Chester 
Elliott Lewis 
Ellis, Floyd C. 
Ellis, Paul 0. 
Elmore, Fred Lee 
Elwyn, Charles Bert 
Elwyn, Bussell II. 
Emerson, Joseph Cowan 
Emert, Herbert (i. 
Emery. Will 
Englund, Carl Philip 
Epting, L. I!. 
Ervin, Claude II. 
Ervin, P. J. 
Evans, George Henry 
Evans, Horace 
Evans, Leonard 
Ewell. E. Robert 
Ewery, Benjamin F. 
Ewing, Hollis Edgar 
Fairchild, Elza O. 
Fairchild. John W. 
Falconer, David Wilford 
Falconer, II. 
Fall, Norman B. 
Farmer, Ray 
Farran, James Robert 
Farrell, .1. A. 
Farrell, James R. 
Farrell, Frank .1. 
Farrell, Lawrence A. 
Farren, Walter L. 
Fasseller, James 
Faulkner, Frank .1. 
Faulkner, James 
Faygans, Robert 



Om- Hundred Forty 



Fennell, Leonard 

Fenny, Walter E. 

Felte, George 

Fields, George 

Fields, Roseoe 

Fike, Fred 

Finch, Harold 

Finley, Clifford Aaron 

Finley, Walter J. 

Fisher, J. E. 

Fisher. Leslie Paul 

Fisher, Lester 

Fisher, Willard 

Fitzgibbon, .1. F. 

Fitzgibbon, Thomas T. 

Flowers. Lewis 

Flynn, John Joseph 

Forbes, Harvey 

Ford, Frank 

Ford, Robert Ear! 

Fordyce, F. II. 

Forinan, William Luther 

Forsythe, Newton .1. 

Fortune. L. M. 

Foster, Burl Preston 

Foster, Dwight Harrison 

Foster, Lester 

Foster, Ray M. 

Foster, True E. 

Fonts, David 

Fouls, Lorenz Monroe 

Fowler, Harry 

Fowler, John William 

Fowler, Merle 

Fox, Arthur Burl 

Foxworthy. Carl 

Foyle, Frank 

Foyle, John 

Frame, Frank 

Frame, Floyd F. 

Frame. Jake 

Frankeburger, Frank 

Franklin, Neil 

Free, Carl L. 

Free, John Noble 

Freed, L. C. 

Freeman, Edward Barnabas 

Freeman, Joseph B. 

Freeto, Frank 

Frey, G. Robert 

Freyermuth, Knox C. 

Five, Ed 

Fugate, Paul 



Fuller, Earl Clifton 
Fulton, Eugene P. 
Funk. Arthur C. 
Furgesen, Wade M. 
Futer, Fred 
Gabriel, Harry E. 
Caddis, Junius A. 
Gaffey, Jonas 
Gail, Charles 
Call. Walter A. 
Gale, A. C. 
Gallagher, A. E. 
Gallion, Frank N. 
Galton, Sidney M. 
Gamble, Chauncy 
Cannon. E. Earl 
Gardner, Clyde 1). 
Gardner, B. B. 
Garland, Calvin 
Garrett, Claude C. 
Garrison, A. B. 
Garvin, Thomas Everett 
Gary, Gordon 
Gates, Bryan 
Gates, William J. 
Galton, Sidney M. 
Garrison, A. B. 
Gebhart, Bert Alvin 
Gebhart, Leslie Ernest 
Gedney, Edgar T. 
Geissmann, Karl 
Gelsenhoner, Walter 
Cemmell, Harry A. 
George, Myron V. 
Gerard, Harold 
Gerard, Joseph 
Giager, Fred 
Gibney, E. H. 
G bson, Homer Glenn 
Gill, Howard Ellis 
Gillette, Wayne 
Gillum, Karl H. 
Glenn, David 
Glidden, Leo Orville 
Gobble, Clyva 
Godfrey, Edgar 1). 
Going, Cordon Wilbur 
Goldsmith, Arthur Byron 
Goltra, Albert Jennings 
Goltra, Ora Robert 
Cood, David Frank 
Goodlow, Clarence 
Goodrich, Boy C. 



One Hundred Forty-one 



Goodwin, Arthur W. 

Goodwin, John Will 

Gordon, Neal .1. 

Gould, Ralph I.. 

Gradj . George E. 

Grady, James Wayne 

Graham, Clifford 

Graham, John Sterling 

Grant, John Edward 

Grant, Thomas I tale 

Crass, Wilfred W. 

Graves, Walter 

Gray, Gordon 

Gray, Irvin 

Gray, Waltrr Strange 

Green, Charles Henry 

Green, John 1). 

Green, William Lewis 

Greening, John Neal 

Greenstreet, John 

Greenwood, Robert 

Gregg, Edward Shaw 

Gregg, W. W. 

Gridley, John S. 

Griffin,George Washington 

Griggs, Marten Robert 

Grillot, R. A. 

Grizzell, Hay 

Gross, Milo E. 

Groves, William Thomas 

Grunden, Hershel I'.. 

Guild, Albert L. 

Guinn, Charles Ellis 

Gunter, Scott 

Gutshall, C. (.. 

Gwinn, W. P. 

llaase, Eric 

Habiger, C. E. 

Hacker, Charles L. 

Mackleman, Fred Karl 

Hackler, Lloyd 

Hagan, Gerald 

I laggard, Samuel Arthur 

Haines, Paul 

llaite, Everett Moore 

Hale, Ray 

Hales, Fred Dwight 

Haley, John Joseph 

Hall, Albert 

Hall, Alfred 

Hall, Charles Wayne 

Hall, Joseph William 

Hall, Willard B. 



iman, Frank McKinley 
imil, L. A. 
unilton, Carl 
imilton, Harry 
unilton, Ralph William 
mmuiek, Clyde W. 
immack, Paul 
inimel, Lee Arthur 
umnar, Frank M. 
ininier, Fred 
unsher, Chester Lee 
ind, Frederick Olin 
andley, Harold 
mdley, Roy S. 
tndy, James Ernest 
uies, Clyde 
ankins, E. P. 
ankins, Harry R. 
inks, Oliver 
inna, John Berry 
innigan, Seth 
ansen, Philip C. 
inscn, Wm. McKinley 
arlin, Walter E. 
arlow, James Harold 
irlow, Mack 

arrington, David Piddle 
arrington, Leon 
arris, Charles Austin 
arris, Charles Miles 
irris, Edson 
irris, Ernest L. 
irris, Herndon 
arris. Richard I. 
arris, Russell 
arshfield, Esrl 
arshfield, William E. 
art. Horace Alpha 
ail. .lames C. 
ill. Robert 
lit. Walter L. 
irvey. Frank II. 
arvey, Robert Ray 
irvey, Walker Hugh 
irvey, William 
isketl, John 
isler, John 
assell, .1. II. 
athaway, Elmer L. 
at/field, Edgar 
averfield, Clare F. 
awkins, Edward 
awkins, P. 



One Hundred Forty-two 



Hawksley, Wm. Fred 

Hawman, Rollie E. 

Hayden, Samuel Adrion 

Hayes, Alfred Leslie 

Hayes, Robin 

Haynes, Joseph E. 

Hazel, Eugene Wilson 

Hazelton, Lee l.uni 

Hazen, Willard Glass 

Heater, William Sanford 

Heinbaugh, Earl C. 

Heit, John Jacob 

Helton, George William 

Henaman, Frank 

Henderson. Fred 

Henderson. Lewis S. 

Hendricks, A. (1. 

Hendrickson, John Homer 

Henry, Fay 

Henry, Otho Dale 

Hersh, Emery Leo 

Hewitt, Jack 

Iliatt, Lee 

Hiatt, Lloyd 

Higginson, Arthur L. 

Hight, Angus Samuel 

Iligbtower, Overton 

Hill, Daniel 

Hill. J 

Hill. Warren Webster 

Hillegos, Clifford A. 

Hindenach, Raymond P. 

Hinman, Thomas Wilson 

Hite. Cecil 

Hite, Harry Francis 

Hite, Orville 

Hobson, James Arthur 

Hodge, Charles 

Hodge. Francis Leonard 

Hodge, Lester D. 

Hodge, Thomas Lawrence 

Hoefling, George F. 

Hoff. Joseph 

Hoffman, Alfonso Frank 

Hogan, Thomas Leo 

Hogelin, Ira Earl 

Holm, Owen 

Hoisington, James W. 

Hoke, Roydie 

Hoklen, Ira 

Holden, Marion 

Hollai-, Harold Raymond 

Hollar, Henry Floyd 



Holley, Harold James 
Holley, Maurice G, 
Holman, Orrin 0. 
Holmes, Lawrence B. 
Holmes, Lon Joe 
Holmes, Walter Francis 
Holsom, Ersa Barron 
Holzer, Oscar 11. 
Hoobler, Rollie B. 
Hook. Emil 
Hookey, Fred 
Hookey, John 
Hoover, John M. 
Hoover. Martin R. 
Hopkins, James 
Hopkins, James II. 
Hopkins, John 
Hopkins, Joseph Henry 
Hopkins, Xobert 
Hoppock, Freeman G. 
Horn, James Luther 
Horn, Thomas Eldred 
Hornbaek, Joseph Edward 
Horstmeier, Alva William 
Horton, Floyd F. 
Horton, Lindsey L. 
Houghton, Charles E. 
House, Isaac M. 
Howard, W. W. 
Howard, Will 
Howe, Richard 
Howell, Herman Oscar 
Howell, John 
Hubbell, Lee 
Hucke, Alva F. 
Hucke, Fred Herman 
Hucke, John Frederick 
Hudgins, Pochard Thomas 
Hues, Harold 
Huff, Robert 
Ilughey, Grant 
Hulett, Harry Benjamin 
Hull, L. J. 
Hume, Frank P. 
Hume, Robert F. 
Humphrej , Claude M. 
Humphrey. Orville S. 
Hunt, Earl Hugh 
Hunt. W. Ellsworth 
Hunt, Ezra 0. 
Hunt. Iioss Jacob 
Hunt, Walter W. 
Hunter, Edward 



One Hundred Forty-three 



Hunter, Fred 
Hurlbut, Earl 
Hurlbut, Fred 
Huss, Asa 

Hutchison, H. Ross 
Hyde, Charles W. Jr. 
lee, Thew J. 
Ingram, Arthur W. 
Ingram, Clifford Howard 
Ingram, Thomas E. 
hick, Earl William 
Irvin, George Percy 
Isbell, Maurice Thorlan 
lsenhrandt, H. L. 
Jackson, N. 
Jackson, Stonewall 
Jacobs, Harold 
Jaggar, Buel William 
Jamerson, William Campbell 
James, Walter Herbert 
Jarboe, John Anthony 
Jarboe, Will 
Jardine, Raymond 
Jeffery, Richard C. 
Jenkins, Grover Cleveland 
Jennings, Charles 
Jennings, Fred 
Johnson, Carl R. 
Johnson, Charles Arthur 
Johnson, Earl W. 
Johnson, Ernest 
Johnson, John 
Johnson, Lee 
Johnson, Leonard 
Johnson, Orville L. 
Johnson, Robert Albert 
Johnson, Roscoe Conklin 
Johnston, Earl William 
Joiner, Oscar 
Jones, Alf L. 
Jones, Arnold 
Jones, Clifford 
Jones, DeWitt T. 
Jones, George Wesley 
Jones, George William 
Jones, Ilarix Nichols 
Jones, Hershel William 
Jones, Hobart McKinley 
Jones, Horace Alexander 
Jones, James Hamilton 
Jones, Joseph Bernard 
Jones, Lloyd Ross 
Jones, McKinley 



Jones, Newell 

Jones, Oceay 

Jones, Paul H. 

Jones, Pearl Stephen 

Jones, Perry Lewis 

Jones, Ralph 

Jones, Will 

Jordon, Melville 

Joslin, Orlando L. 

Joyce, C. I. 

Joyce, W. G. 

Justice, Robert 

Kale, Roy 

Kane, Harry E. 

Karas, Jay Delbert 

Kastler, David Lewis 

Keck, Alfred Andrew 

Keck, Frank E. 

Keck, John Joseph 

Keefe, Paul Leo 

Keene, Arthur Wilbur 

Keene, Walter Mitchell 

Keener, Alva Leroy 

Keiter, Cecil E. 

Kelley, Renjamin Harrison 

Kelley, Claude Oliver 

Kelley, Herbert 

Kelley, Jack 

Kelley, Sidney 

Kemper, Gleeton E. 

Kencel, Leslie Loy 

Kemper, Peter 

Kendall, Ralph William 

Kendall, Walter Ezra 

Kendrick, Lew Elden 

Kennedy, Clyde 

Kennedy, Earl Floyd 

Kennedy, Maurice Joe 

Kennelberger, Walter R. 

Kenney, George E. 

Kenney, Raymond M. 

Kenney, Walter E. 

Kent, James E. 

Kephart, Omer H. 

Kern, Jerome 

Kerschner, W.P. 

Kesler, Frank 

Kessler, Clarence H. 

Kessler, Vernice A. 

Ketehum, Marvin 
Kiblinger, Sankey 
Kidney, Leonard 
Kiker, James Arthur 



One Hundred Forty-four 












Kilgore, H. E. 

Kimball, Charles W. 

Kimball, J. 

Kimball, Pierre M. 

Kimball, Ray Lester 

Kimball, Webster W. 

Kimmel, Prentice Harper 

Kimmey, Virgil Adrion 

Kinckeloe, W. D. 

Kindall,R. W. 

Kingore, Howard Egvert 

Kingsbury,Roscoe R. 

Kinney, Walter 

Kinzie, Claude Edward 

Kious, Fred 

Kirk, llonr-, Hayden 

Kirkpatriek, Alfred Emerson 

Kirkpatrick, W. A. 

K leister, Fritz 

Knight, Eddie Lee 

Knight, Frank W. 

Knight, Fred W. 

Knight, George F. 

Knox, Clarence Albert 

Koch, Dick 

Koch, Emit 

Koch, Frank Charles 

Kohler, Millard 

Koontz, E. W. 

Kouen, E. .1. 

Kunzert, Charles 

La Horde, Everett 

Lackey, John E. Jr. 

Land), Edward .1. 

Lamb, John 

Lambert, Leroy P. 

Lambert, Ray 

Lamm, Charles Lewis 

Lancaster, James Henry 

Landaker, Charles B. 

Landes, George A. 

Landis, Wilbur 

Landreth, Elmer H. 

Landreth, Frank 

Lanej . Clyde 

Lanham, Frank 

Lansdowne, Hiram A. 

Large, Fred 

Larue. Allie 

Lawler, William Lee 

Lawrence, Irving Horace 

Layton, Byron 



Layton, Roj 
Lear, Harry 1'. 
Leaverton, Albert M. 
Lee, Albert 
Lee, Howard Marion 
Lee, Owen 
Lee, Robert Carl 
Lee. Thomas Franklin 
Lefflngwell, Ray F. 
Leftwich, Percy 
Leightner, (). X. 
Leitnaker, Cherry Frank 
Lenox, Bert F. 
Leonard, Clarence A. 
Lersch, Albert 
Leslie, Kenka Loy 
Lett. Cecil I'. 
Lewinsohn, .lames 0. 
Lewinsohn, Milton Mart 
Lewis. Claude Willis 
Lewis. 1). W. 
Lewis. Thomas Hayward 
Lewis, Willie Samuel 
Leibfarth, M. C. 
Lietsche, Gus 
Liggett, Herbert H. 
Liggett, William 
Liggett, William E. 
Lillihridge, Glenn 
Lincoln,- Lewis 
Lindsey, Paul W. 
Lindsey, I!. Otto 
Lindstrom, Walter Ray 
Liston.f Mis 
Little. David 
Little, Theodore Peroy 
Livingston, Anderson I 
Livingston, Charles R. 
Locke, Herbret 
Lockhart, Lee 
Lodge, Edmund A. 
Loe, Thomas Franklin 
Lollar, Lionel L. 
Lollar, Thomas Claude 
Lombard, Ernest Alvin 
Lombe, James 
Lombe, Robert G. 
Lombe, Warner 
Long. Melvin 
Long. William E. 
Lonnecker, Virgil 
Looney, Cecil A. 
Lortz, Elmer .1. 



One Hundred Forty-five 



Love, Albeit G. 
Lovelady, George 
Lovell, Clarence 
Lowe, Henry 
Lowe. Lewis 
Lowe, Lois 
Lozier, Thomas Lloyd 
Lubbers, Eike li. Jr. 
Luman, Arthur Brooke 
Lumbeck, Walter Joseph 
Limim, Earl 
Lush, Jay 

Lush, Robert Henry 
Luther, George .Monroe 
Lux, Lester A. 
Lydle, Henrj 
Lynch, Willard Trollis 
Lynd, Harry John 
Lynd, Lloyd A. 
Lyons, Malcolm 
Lyons, Melvin 
Lynns, Milton Frederick 
McAleer, Clyde B. 
McAleer, Ralph William 
McBride, Bion 
McCaffrey, Clove 
McCain, Paul T. 
McCall, David 
McCarey, Lacy 
McCarthy, Justin G. 
McCartney, Thurston L. 
McCarty, fra 
McClain, David W. 
McClain, Frank 
McClain, H. C. 
McClain, James Talmage 
.McClain, Robert Lee 
McClain, W. J. 
McCIane, Edwin 
McClannahan, Harvey 
McClarey, Case Vernon 
McClatchey, Eugene 
McClaughlin, Calvin P. 
McComas, John Franklin 
McConnell, Paul Kepke 
McCorkle, Charles Leo 
McCormick, Ed Joseph 
McCormick, George Dillon 
McCormick, Richard D. 
.McCormick, Thomas J. 
McCormick, William E. 
McCowan, Earl W. 
McCreary, Edmund 



McCreary, Lee 
McCullough, A. 
McCune, Clifford L. 
McCutcheon, Wilton M. 
McDaniel, James A. 
Mi Daniel, Samuel E. 
McDole, Oscar 
McDonald, Donald 
McDonald. Edwin N. 
McDonald, Horace 
McDonald, Irvin Thomas 
McDonald, Lawrence Dewey 
McElhaney, James J. 
McFarland, Lee H. 
McFarland, Lynn 
McGee, Charles Adam 
Mc( ice, Claude Anthony 
McGinnes, Claude St. Clair 
Mediums, James E. 
McGinty, Martin B. 
McKinnon, W. 
Mi Knight, Arthur Glenn 
McLane, Boy dates 
McMellon, Lee 
McMurry, Ellis Ray 
McMurry, Eugene Earl 
McMurry, Otis H. 
McMurry, Robert Uriah 
Mackintosh, Robert O. 
Maclean, Robert N. 
Maddox, William Banty 
Maginnity, Martin Berry 
Maher, Robert 

Mahon, 

Mails, Mark 
Mallory, George 
Mallory, Robert 
Maloney, Robert I. 
Malsed. J. Arthur 
Mann, Amba C. 
Manners, Charles E. 
Marion, Morrison Clyde 
Marion, Henry 
Marker, Charles Frank 
Markley, Raymond 
Marshall. Arthur Ray 
Marshall, Charles Fred 
Martin, Charles B. 
Martin, Edward Lewis 
Martin. Harry 
Martin, Maxwell M. 
Martin, Raymond W. 
Martin, William Leonard 



One Hundred Forty-six 






Martin, William S. 
Mason, Samuel .1. E. 
Mason, William Stanley 
Massa, William Harrison 
Matheny, Arthur 
Mather, Irvin Emerson 
Mather, John 
Matins. Lloyd Edman 
Mathis, Malcolm 
Matson, Marshall A. 
Matthews, Clinton Dee 
Mattingly, Clovis 
Maxwell, Charles T. 
Max, George Washington 
May, Ralph E. 
Mayo, Thomas I). 
Meek, Richard C. 
Mellon, Mark Lit 
Merrill, Beecher 

Merry, Oscar Daniel 
Merwarth, Charles H. 
Merwarth, George W. 
Merwarth, Russell Raymond 
Metcalf, Fred 
Middleton, Raymond 
Mill's, Clarence W, 
Miles, John Lawton 
Milham, Chester Richard 
Milhain. Russell F. 
Miller, Benjamin N. 
Miller. Charles R. 
Miller, Clarence W. 
Miller, Cliff Darwin 
Miller. Ernest 
Miller, 0. R. 
Miller, Harry 
Miller, Jack W. 
Miller, Joseph 
Miller. Lawrence 
Miller, Oscar 
Millican, Karl Crockett 
Milliken, Charles E. 
Milliken, Earl 
Mills. David G. 
Mills, Jack 
Minniefield, Roy 
Minton. Ernest 
Missildine, John G. 
Modlin, Albert Ray 
Modlin, Fred 
Mollenhour, George Earl 
Moore, Borgis 
Moore, Dewey R. 



Moore, Ernest Ray 
Moore, Everett 
Moore. Floyd Cornelius 
Moore, Hugh Allen 
Moore, Lewis S. 
Moore, Ray James 
Moore, Victor Rhodes 
Moore, William W. 
Moran, Charles P. 
Morgan, Evert Clarence 
Morgan, John Ear] 
Morgan, Oscar A. 
Morgan, Paul Harold 
Morgan, Ross Conklin 
Moritzky, Arley 
Morris, Albert Wesley 
Morrison, Slell Joseph 
Morrow. John Elijah 
Morrow, X. (;. 
Morton, Percy 
Morton, Robert Henry 
Mosely, Charles L. 
Mosher, Hoyf 
Mosher, S. J. 
Moslander, Chauncey 
Moslander, Harmon 
Mosler, Clyde Davis 
Moss, John Lewis 
Moss, Walter Oscar 
Moudy, Levi 

Mountain, 

Mullins, Ro\ o. 
Murphy, David E. 
Murphy, Ellis Walter 
Murphy, Everett Clarence 
Murphy, Harrj A. 
Murphy, Hiram 
Murphy, James 
Murphy. James Patrick 
Murphy, Joseph W. 
Murphy, William E. 
Murry, Herman T. 
Muxworthy, Ferris Thomas 
Myers, Charles Finley 
Myers, Vasser 
Myers, William C. 
Xafus, Xelie 
Nash. A. R. 
Neale. W. G. 
Neffziger, W. 1). 
Neighbors, Cecil Paul 
Neil, David 
Ncedman, Benjamin 



One Hundred Forty-seven 



Nelson, Carl Ambrose 

Nelson, Earl R. 

Nelson, Lester Paul 

Nesbit, J. P. 

Neuman, Lewis Frank 

Neville, Leslie Ira 

Newby, Bertie 

Neweomb, Verne 

Newland, Emmett 

Newman, Harry H. 

Newton, Charles Pascal 

Newton, Emmett 

Newton, Manfred S. 

Newton, Silas Arthur 

Newton, William 

Nichols, John N. 

Nickel. Adam 

Nickel, Charles Christian 

Nickel, George Henry 

Noble, Richard 

Noll, David 

Noll, John Joseph 

Nolty, Frank Henry 

Norman, Jeff 

Norris, Frank R. 

Norris, Willard 

Norton, Porsey 

Nugent. William 

Nutt, Lewis 

Nutt, William Henry 

N'lizum, Alonzo J. 

Oakleaf, Cecil Hale 

Oberwortman, Nugent Robert 

O'Brien, Albert 

O'Brien, Edgar Robert 

O'Brien, Joseph 

O'Brien, Boy F. 

O'Bryan, William B. 

O'Connell, Mark 

O'Connell, Paul 

O'Connor, John P. 

O'Connor, John Jr. 

O'Connor, S. M. 

Odell.Guy 

Odell, John Luther 

O'Farrell, .limmie 

Oglesby, Thomas A. 

O'Hara, William 

O'Herin, J. J. 

O'Herin, William 

Olinger, B. F. 

Oliphant, Charles W. 

Olson, Everett A. 



Olson, Harry 
Olson, Otis 
O'Beagan, Michael F. 
Osborn, W. F. 
ott, Archie Lee 
Otterslatter, .1. 
Owens, Addison Dimmitt 
Owens, Harry V. 
Packard, Grant L. 
Palluch, Peter 
Palmer. Harry .1. 
Pargen, John Joseph 
Pargen, Owen Michael 
Parker, Glen M. 
Parker, John W. 
Parker, Nay Jr. 
Parker. Roy 
Parks. Rav 
Parrish, Willard 
Pate, William Burl 
Patilla, Charles 
Patrick, Charles 
Patrick. Robert 
Patton, Jeffrey 
Patton, Robert W. 
Payne, Albert 
Payne, Charles Delbert 
Payne, James 
Payne, Joseph Henry 
Payne, Will 
Pea, Charles 
Peace, George W. 
Peak, Toney A. 
Pearce, Milton 
Pearson, Arthur J. 
Pearson, John T. 
Peebles, Fred Elbert 
Pefley, Arthur Edwin 
Pendarvis, Fail 
Perfactor, George Klein 
Perkins, Clinton Allen 
Perry, Harry Edward 
Perry, Isaac Laddie 
Peterson, Doak 
Peterson, Edward C. 
Peterson, Edward J. 
Petty, C. N. 
Peyton, Jesse 
Phelps, Arthur O. 
Phillips, A. C. 
Phillips, Albert R. 
Phillips, Harry E. 
Phillips, Seigel C. 



One Hundred Forty-ei^ht 



Phillipy, John Ernest 

Pickering, Walter R. 

Pierce, Darius Bynuin 

Pierson, R. S. 

Piggott, Wayne F. 

Pilkington, John A. 

Pilkington, Oscar Albert 

Pinkston, Elmer Edward 

Pinson, Bernard W. 

Pitts, P. C. 

Pittser, Arthur 

Pittser, Ollie F. 

Plumb, Henry C. 

Plummer, Ralph 

Poage, George Washington 

Portrum, Lloyd Ellis 

Potter, Edward C. 

Potter, Lieborn A. 

Poulson, Denton 

Powell, Warren Osborn 

Powell, William 

Powell, William Robert 

Pownall, Willie A. 
Prall, Jack I). 
Pratt, Manny 
Preston, Benjamin 
Preston, Raymond C. 
Price, Fitz L. 
Price, Jack 
Price, Ralph Waldo 
Pritchard, James M. 
Proctor, Willard 
Provost, Francis T. 
Provost, Harold J. 
Pruitt, Raymond Ralph 
Puilinbarger, Earl 
Pulcher, Frederick W. 
Pulcher, Walter R. 
Pyatt, Charles Alfred 
Quails, D. L. 
Quarles, G. L. 
Quathamer, John G. 
Quick. Harry E. 
Quinlin, Frank L. 
Quinn, Edward J. 
Quinn, Martin 
Rafferty, Virgil John 
Ragland, Claude 
Railsback, Tyrrell J. 
Randle, David N. 
Randle, Frank 
Ranson, Curtis W. 
Ratliff, Charles C. 



Ratner, Payne H. 
Ray, James R. 
Rayburn, Glen 
Rayless, Avery Alphes 
Raymond, Carl Augustus 
Rea, James G. 
Read, Charles Madison 
Ream, Leland L. 
Reater, William Sanford 
Reed, Berry F. 
Reed, Charles William 
Reed, Roy J. 
Reed, Robert 
Reeder, Carl B. 
Reedy. Harry A. 
Reedy, Raymond 
Reedy, Robert 
Reese, Bellson 
Reese, Maxie M. 
Reeves, Allen Evert 
Reeves, W. L. 
Regan, Martin Joseph 
Reibow, Homer 
Reilly, Leo M. 
Reinhart, James 
Reinhart, Louis Edward 
Remington, .Merle Vernon 
Reno, M. A. 
Rettig, Fred 
Reynolds, Earl D. 
Reynolds, Lehman T. 
Reynolds, Lewis R. 
Reynolds, William L. 
Rhodes, Harry Rexford 
Rice, Carl V. 
Rice, Clarence Henry 
Rich, Raymond 
Richardson, Henry C. 
Richardson, John Franklin 
Richardson, John W. 
Richardson, L. T. 
Richardson, Lester Delbert 
Richardson, O. C. 
Richardson, Oard 
Richmond, Jay 
Rickart, Russell Richard 
Ricketts, Carl V. 
Ricketts, John Leslie 
Piddle, C. E. 
Riddle, Earl A. 
Riddler, Burl 
Rieske, William Otto 
Biggs, Herbert 



One Hundred Forty-nine 



Riley, Everett 
Roach, Owen C. 
Roach, Thomas R. 
Robbins, Samuel Fanning 
Roberts, Ed Winton 
Roberts, Fred R. 
Roberts, Hugh 
Roberts, R. I). 
Robertson, Harry H. 
Robinett, Clyde 
Robinson, Anion 
Robinson, Arthur Ward 
Robinson, Charles 
Robinson, Ernest Lee 
Robinson, Harvey Alfred 
Robinson, Lincoln 
Robinson, Maurice 
Robinson, Preston 
Robinson, Roy 
Robinson, W. A. 
Rockhold, Charles 
Rochs. Philip P. 
Rodeman, Clarence R. 
Rodenburger, Cecil 
Roesler, Edward Harry 
Roesler, John Car) 
Hooney, Tom Francis 
Rorschach, Arthur Lee 
Rorschach, Herbert 
Rorschach, Hubert H. 
Ross, Claude Orville 
Ross, Glen O. 
Ross, John Daniel 
Ross, Orville Claude 
Ross, Milton W. 
Rosser, Russell 
Rotter, C. C. 
Rouse, Clyde Spaulding 
Rouse, Spencer Kinley 
Ruble, Roland (). 
Rule, Herbert R. 
Rule, Herbert Eugene 
Rumbeck, Dick Vernon 
Rush, Leonard Jonas 
Rushton, Charles 
Russell, Daniel Raily 
Russell, .1. J. 
Rutegen, Carl H. 
Rutherford, Arthur 
Rutledge, Paul Albert 
Ryan, Alexander 
Ryan, Asa 
Ryan, Claude 



Ryan, Floyd 
Ryburn, Robert K. 
Sadler, Wesley 
Sage, Devon 
Sage, William Howard 
Sage, Lawrence Elmore 
Sales, Floyd 
Salisbury, George W. 
Salisbury, Henry T. 
Saloman, Solly 
Sammis, C. Frank 
Sand, Henry C, 
Sandbickler, Emil 
Sanders. 1). A. 
Sanders, George Porter 
Sanders, Harry 
Sanford, Willis 
Sanger, Jack 
Sargent, Roy Lawrence 
Sarrison, C. 
Satterfield. William 
Sauter, Edward Adolph 
Savage, Willis 
Sawtell, Emmett 
Sawtell, Hobart 
Sawtell, John W. 
Sawtell, Leroy 
Saver, H. A. 
Savior, Grady Bryan 
Scalletty, Frank E. 
Schaller, Frank 
Schlicher, John L. 
Schmidt, Donald 
Schreck, Quinton P 
Schuetz, Louis 
Scott, Charles H. 
Scott, Fred Paul 
Scott, Glenn W. 
Scott, Harry Alex 
Scott, Howard 
Scott, Ira S. 
Scott, James W. 
Scott, John Earl 
Scott, Leonard 
Scott, Preston 
Scott, Thomas 
Scott, Ward 
Scully, Charles Pat 
Searles, Clifford B. 
Sebring, John Easter 
Sedgewick, Fred S. 
Sehrt, Albert 
Sehrt, Robert 



One Hundred Fifty 



Seiler, R. C. 

Selanders, Martin 

Self, Asbury A. 

Selfridge, Frank Ford 

Setters, Pearl William 

Severt, Daniel Edward 

Shaffer, Charles 

Shaffer, Joseph Frank 

Shailer, James E. 

Shaner, William 

Shannon, James M. 

Shannon, William J. 

Sharp, Howard B. 

Sharshel, Rudolph J. 

Sharshel. William M. 

Shaughnessey, Ralph Edward 

Shaughnessey, William J. 

Shaw, Thomas David 

Shay, Maurice A. 

Shea. Joseph C. 

Shea. Robert 

Shearhart, Everett 

Shearhart, John E. 

Sheddy, C. H. 

Sheehan, Arthur T. 

Sheets, Albert R. 

Sheets, George W. 

Shelhamer, Walter H. 

Shelton, John Fay 

Sheppard, Ernest Albert 

Sherman, Everett 

Sherwood, Earl A. 

Shields, George S. 

Shields, Onis 

Shields, Roy 

Shifllet. Uel'l 

Shinn, Clarence A. 

Short, Clyde 

Short, Harry G. 

Shouse, Dwight L. 

Shreck, Lewis McKinley 

Shreck, Quinton P. 

Shrewsberry, Charles 

Shultz. Leslie 

Shumaid, George Grant 

Shy, John 

Shy, Lee 

Shy. William W. 

Silcott, Claude 

Silcott, Wayne 

Silkey. Carl E. 

Simmons, A. R. 

Simmons, Joseph R. 



Simmons, Leroy S. 
Simmons. Ralph 
Simon, Lawrence Keith 
Singer. Frank 
Skaggs, Jesse Frank 
Slanders. Scribe 
Slane, Lefonse 
Slane, Rufus A. 
Slattery, Michael W. 
Slonaker, Harry R 
Smart, James Walter 
Smay, Earl 
Smith. Albert 
Smith, Alex 
Smith. C. R. 
Smith, Calvin 
Smith, Charles Elmer 
Smith, Charles L. 
Smith. Donovan Wise 
Smith. Edwin F. 
Smith, Ernest 
Smith. George G. 
Smith. George M. 
Smith, Glenn E. 
Smith, llarlc\ 
Smith, Harry P. 
Smith. Hubert P. 
Smith, Irvin E. 
Smith, John P. 
Smith, John George 
Smith, John Walter 
Smith. J. Lester 
Smith, Otis 
Smith, Peter 
Smith, Russell Allied 
Smith, Terry L. 
Smith, Ulysses J. 
Smith, Walter 
Smith, Walter R. 
Smith. Wayne H. 
Smith, William Herman 
Smoot, Clarence Oscar 
Smoot, John Roger 
Snell, Dale George 
Snowberger, Tulley A. 
Snyder, Lester E. 
Snyder, Martin Luther 
Snyder, Ray 
Sodeman, Frederick L. 
Soloman, Sol 
Sourbeer, Sidney Keith 
Southerland, Martin 
Spain, Herbert 15. 



One Hundred Fifty-one 



Sparks, Albert Roy 
Spear, Alfred 
Speegle, A. Gaynes 
Speer, Raymond Lee 
Spellman, Curtis 
Spencer, Ruben Knight 
Spendiff, W. W. 
Sphere, Alfred 
Splitt, Leon Joseph 
Spooner, Charles E. 
Spooner, Edward 
Staber, Robert 
Stadel, G. H. 
Stafford, Gus A. 
Stafford, Porter 
Stainbrook, Bert 
Stallard, Frederick M. 
Stallard, Robert 

Stanley, 

Starkweather, R. 
Startz, Clarence Joseph 
Steeby, Carl Henry 
Steeby, John Sherman 
Steele, Charles David 
Stemple, Earl Max 
Stemple, William ("dark 
Stephens, Milo Emmett 
Stephens, Ray 
Stephenson, Alva 
Stephenson, Dewey W. 
Stephenson, J. C. 
Steuber, Otto Engle 
Stevens, Frank W. 
Stevens, Lee Roy 
Stevens, Roy Lee 
Stevens, William R. 
Stevenson, Clifford C. 
Stevenson, Wilbur W. 
Stewart, David R. 
Stewart, Eugene Regnier 
Stewart, Harold 
Stewart, Herbert 
Stewart, Lewis M. 
Stewart, Shaffer 
Stewart. W. S. 
.Stewart, William 
Stice, Harry F. 
Stierwalt, Earl E. 
Stinson, Clarence W. 
Stinson, Cleo 
Stinson, Gilbert Lee 
Stinson, Charles Edward 
Stinson, Verne 



Stites, Arthur A. 
Stites, Charles E. 
Stites, Edward 
Stockton, J. 
Stone, Arthur R. 
Stone, George Fenton 
Stoobler, Rollie B. 
Storey, Edward M. 
Stout, W. W. 
Strickland, Joseph L. 
Sturm, Oscar Frederick 
Studebaker, H. S. 
Sullivan, Laid Wilbur 
Summers, Chester 
Sutton, Clarence A. 
Sutton, Raul 
Sutton, Richard 
Swarthout, Andrew Eugene 
Sweet, Ralph A. 
Swisher. Frank H. 
Swisher, Ziba 
Tackett, James L. 
Talbot, William P. 
Tallman, Benjamin 
Tanner, Homer Andrew 
Tanner, James Loren 
Taylor, Edward Everett 
Taylor, Frank G. 
Taylor, Holland 
Taylor, Howard S. 
Taylor, John 
Taylor, Manning 
Teat, Lee R. 
Teepin, Herman A. 
Templeton, Fred 
Temps, George Henry 
Terhune, Walter 
Terrell, Frank 
Terry, J. L. 
Teter, Carl F. 
Tharp, Ray S. 
Thoman, Joseph Frank 
Thomas, Andrew 
Thomas, Charles Alfred 
Thomas, Earl 
Thomas, Ellsworth 
Thomas, Herbert Oscar 
Thomas, Pixley John 
Thomas, Steve 
Thompson, Arthur Ross 
Thompson, Carl 
Thompson, F. M. 
Thompson, Fred 



One Hundred Fifty-two 



Thompson, George R. 
Thompson, Harry H. 
Thompson, John 
Thompson, Sam Albert 
Thompson, William Raines 
Thompson, William Roland 
Thornburg, Hardin R. 
Thorp, Lewis N. 
Tierney, Eugene F. 
Tierney, John 
Tifft, Cranston 
Tillman, James E. 
Tilton, William Henry 
Tinder, John W. 
Tinder, James Alford 
Tinder, Loyal F. 
Todd, Alvin Lewis 
Todd, Earl Everett 
Todd, Glenn W. 
Toole, Ned 
Towery, Fred Joseph 
Townsend, Eden L. 
Townsend, James G. 
Tracy, Charles 
Trafford, J. E. 
Tramberger, George R. 
Trammell, Jesse Elmer 
Traster, Bert James 
Traster, Ralph E. 
Tratchel, Rex V. 
Traughber, Alva C. 
Traughber, Leland E. 
Travis, Howard 
Triplett, Oren Allen 
Triplett, Orville Anderson 
Triplett, Samuel 
Tripp, George Enoch 
Troester, William Lawrence 
Trout, Leonard E. 
Tucker, Frank 
Tucker, Harry R. 
Tungent, Clyde Bryan 
Turner, Coleman 
Turner, Earl F. 
Turner, James Edwin 
Turner, James Richard 
Turpi n. Ho J. 
Tuthill, Ernest 
Tutor, Edward 
Tweedy, Roy L. 
Umphenour, Chester G. 
Underwood, Albert 
t'nderwood, Byron Weston 



Utely, Claude Jacob 
Utely, Lloyd Ashford 
Vandervert, Earl J. 
Van Dyne, Will A, 
Van Flack, Thomas 
Van Horn, Ralph 
Van Huse, Samuel 
Van Meter, Abraham R. 
Van Meter, I. 1). 
Van Zant, Raymond 
Vaughn, Lemon 
Vice, Keet 
Vickers, John L. 
Von Buhn, Harmon 
Von Treba, Albert E. 
Voss, George R. 
Wackerlee, Harold E. 
Wade. Mark W. 
Wade, William Cornell 
Wadsack, Ray 
Waggoner, Denver Ward 
Wagner, Charles Jacob 
Wagner, Harold Leonard 
Walker, Jesse R. 
Walker, C. 
Walker, Emery F. 
Walker, Harrison 
Walker, Samuel T. 
Wallace, I. 
Wallace, Percy 
Wallace, Richard 
Wallen, James Elisha 
Wallingford. Cecil D. 
Wallingford, George S. 
Wallingford. James 
Walls, Clyde 
Walters, Alva 
Walters. Hal 

Walters, William Richard 
Waltrip, Roy 

Warbington, Oliver Ward 
Ward Denver 
Ward, E. Harvey 
Ward, John T. 
Ward. R. II. 
Ward, Sam B. 
Warwick, R. A. 
Washabaugh, Virgil R. 
Waters, Frank 
Watson, Charles Hill 
Watson, Felix 
Watson, Grover C. 
Watson, Herbert 



One Hundred Fifty-three 



Watson, Hubert 
Watson, Jack 
Weathers, Delbert 
Weaver, James H. 
Webb, George Edgar 
Webb, Merle H. 
Webb, Nathan P. 
Weeks, Charles Oscar 
Weeks, Erwin 
Weisbrod, Karl F. 
Weissmann, Karl 
Welch, Chester Ward 
Welch, Clarence V. 
Welch, Everett V. 
Welch, Raymond Lester 
Welch, Ross Conklin 
Wellington, Hugh 
Wells, Ivan Allen 
Wells, James 
Wells, Walter James 
Wendell, John Phillips 
West, Arley Ray 
Westley, William 
Weyland L. 
Wharton, J, Frank 
Whealan, Bert Frederick 
Whealan, Ross 
Wheat, Lewis H. 
Wheat Volney I). 
Wheeler, Edward Aloysius 
Wheeler, John Martin 
Whetstone. John 
Whipple, Jack 
White, Charlse R. 
White, Claude Forest 
White, Edward 
White, Frederick T. 
White, George R. 
White, Guy 
White, Ira Emerson 
White, James Lewis 
White, Oren R. 
Whitney, Arthur Guv 
Whilscll, S. R. 
Widmer, Earl E. 
Widmer, Henry C. 
Wielgorecki, Joseph 
Wiggins, Edgar 
Wiggins, Edward J] 
Wiggins, Forest William 
Wiggins, Fred Andrew 
Wiggins, James Bernard 
Wiley, Max R. 



Wilkerson, George Charles 
Wilks, William Burton 
Willahan, Arthur Edward 
Willard, Donald Murray 
Williams, Albert 
Williams, Allen 
Williams, Daniel Edward 
Williams, Fred Vernon 
Williams, Glen 
Williams, Henry Warren 
Williams, James Andrew 
Williams, James Orla 
Williams, John 
Williams, Lloyd 
Williams, Robert 
Williams, Russell 
Williams, W. C. 
Williams, Warren 
Williamson, Arthur 
Williamson, John Martin 
Willihan, Arthur Edward 
Willis, George 
Willis, Nat M. 
Willis, Wilbur R. 
Willis, William A. 
Willison, Warren H. 
Wills, Lawrence J. 
Wilmoth, Francis A. 
Wilmoth, Jesse B. 
Wilson, Asa Theodore 
Wilson, Charles R. 
Wilson, Clinton 0. 
Wilson, Delbert 
Wilson, Elbert 
Wilson, Elmer 
Wilson, Eugene 
Wilson, Henry Rollin 
Wilson, John 
Wilson, Murray 
Wilson, Roscoe Richard 
Wilson, Roy E. 
Wilson, Ulysses Elbert 
Wilson, William H. 
Wilson, William Robert 
Wimmer, Alva C. 
Wimmer, Gordon Thomas 
Windbigler, John Leslie 
Wine, John Robert 
Wingfield, Ray 
Wingfield, Ross R. 
Winkle, W. 
Wischer, Alva Lewis 



One Hundred Fifty-four 



Wise, Lyman A. 
Wise, V. Lloyd 
Witt, Clarence 
Wolfe, Charles W. 
Wolfe, Daniel Harsche 
Wolford, Harvey 
Wolverton, Jack Leon 
Womble, Dave 
Wood. Charles Tremain 
Woodman, Bruce Sylvester 
Woodman, Clarence George 
Woods, Lee Albert 
Woods, Leo 
Woods, otto P. 
Woods, Roy Amos 
Woodward, C. I.. 
Woody, B. H. 
Woolfolk, Wilford C. 
Workman, Charles F. 
Workman, David W. 
Workman, George B. 
Workman, Grover 



Wright, Albert E. 
Wright, George Daniel 
Wright. James Pierce 
Wright, James R. 
Wright, James Wilbur 
Yarbrough, Charles A. 
Yeackle, Jack Oswald 
Yinder, J. W. 
Yoakum, Joseph E. 
York, Solomon E. 
Young, Edwin F. 
Young, Hobart 
Young, Lee 
Young, Peter Bay 
Young, Verne Louis 
Younger, Eugene 
Younger, James Glenwood 
Zimmerman, Charlse C. 
Zimmerman, Nelson Luther 
Zook, Harry 
Zuck, Ernest Glenn 
Zuck, Harry Edwin 



These were entrained but returned without service. 



Alberts, Leslie 
Aurentz, Vincent Joseph 
Bennett, Francis Wesley 
Booten, William B. 
Carey, Balph 
Cooney, Bernard Ralph 
Cooper, Willard Bruce 
Cramer, John Walter 
Crawford, William Washington 
Dishman, Clyde Dewey 
Foster, Lloyd Lester 
Fouts, Twin Francis 
Goldsmith, Charles R. 
Harbin, George Hampton 



Hockler, William Lester 

Livesay, Thomas Virgil 

McChenning, Floyd Calvin 

Neer, Arlie 

Parsons, Clifford Merle 

Peters, John Wesley 

Peters, Will Louis 

Recce, Harold Everett 

Reedy, Elmer Ellsworth 

Ross, John Everett 

Slusher, Otis 

Spaulding, Benedict Joseph 

Triebel, Howard 

Triebel, William Harrison 



One Hundred Fifty-five 




Some scenes taken in France, by the "boys." 



One Hundred Fifty-six 



A Okwral IRnsirr of thr Artiitr Uar 
Jin ICabrttr (Ummtij 



arkrrs 



(Gathered from public and private records.) 



Abell, R. F. 
Abby, Mrs. J. L. 
Adams. Mrs. Ira 
Adams, Mrs. J. I). 
Alexander. Mrs. Emma A. 
Alloway, Mrs. Jay 
Anderson, H. F. 
Anderson, Mrs. R. A. 
Arbegast, Mrs. A. D. 
Arbegast, Miss Anna 
Arbegast, Miss Laura 
Arnett, Miss Ada 
Arnett, Creta 
Arnett. E. A. 
Arnett, Miss Ida 
Arnett, M. A. 
Arnold, Mrs. A. A. 
Arnold, Mrs. Fannie 
Atbey. Mrs. .1. W. 
Atkinson, W. D. 
Avers. Mrs. F. J. 
Bailey, Mrs. Myrtle 
Raker, Mrs. Cyrus 
Baker, Mrs. J. E. 
Raker, L. S. 
Baker, Mrs. Ralph E. 
Baldwin, Mrs. Harry 
Ballinger, Mrs. W. D. 
Bane, Mrs. G. E. 
Rarnes, .1. W. 
Rarnes, Mrs. John 
Rarnhart, Mrs. Stella 
Barnbill, J. F. 
Rarrick, Mrs. N. E. 
Rarton, Miss Emily 
Rarton, Kirby 
Rarton, Mrs. Kirby 
Rates, Mrs. George W. 
Baty, Jennie M. 



Beam, Mrs. Phoebe 
B earner, E. 
Beck, Mrs. Harry 
Bedwell, Mrs. Charles 
Bedwell, Mrs. Minnie 
Belmi, Dcssa 
Bender, Mrs. H. I.. 
Bendure, Mrs. C. S. 
Bendure, Miss Gertrude 
Benjamin, Rev. E. S. 
Rennett, Mrs. J. P. 
Rennett, Mrs. J. W. 
Ben/. .1. .1. 

Berglund. Mrs. G. A. 
Bernard, .1. < ). 
Bernardine, E. P. 
Bero, Ed 
Bertsch, Bertha 
Bertsch, J. C. 
Bever, Mrs. Eugene 
Bever, Mrs. Frank 
Bever, Miss Mamie 
Rever. Miss. Mildred 
Bierman, H. 
Birt, J. M. 
Birt, Mrs. Lydia J. 
Blackmail, Viola 
Blackmore, Mrs. Mary 
Blair, Mrs. B. K. 
Blair, Hazel 
Blair, Mrs. S. L. 
Blair. Mrs. Stella 
Blair, W. A. 
Blake, Mrs. P. W. 
Blake, Rolla A. 
Blake. Miss Ruth 
Blaker, Mrs. Mary 
Blasdel, Dr. T. D. 
Blasdel, Mrs. T. D. 



One Hundred Fifty-seven 



Boardman, Dr. E. W. 
Boardman, Mrs. Dr. E. W. 
Boardman, Mrs. S. G. 
Bobb, Mrs. S. C. 
Boecker, A. 
Bonebrake, Mrs. Ben 
Bonebrake, R. 
Boner. Mrs. l'hil 
Bond. (). II. 
Boone, Mrs. Martha .1. 
Bowman, Henry 
Bowman, Mrs. Henry 
Bowman, Mrs. W. M. 
Boyd. Beth 
Boyd. Nellie 
Boyd. B. L. 
Bradbury, Miss C. 
Bradley, Veronica 
Brandenburg, Rev. W. H. 
Bray, John 
Bridger, Eulah 
Briggs, Mrs. Henry 
Briggs, Mrs. II. F. 
Briggs, Mrs. II. S. 
Britton, Mrs. Gilbert 
Britton, S. <;. 
Brooks, Miss Amber 
Brookshire, Mrs. T.M. 
Broomhall, E. F. 
Brown, Mrs. A. (). 
Brown, Mrs. F. C. 
Brown, Mrs. Frank 
Brown, Mrs. H. H. 
Brown, Mrs. I. on 
Brown, \Y. W. 
Bryant, II. A. 
Bryant, Mrs. H. A. 
Buckley, Alice 
Buel. Walter 
Buel, Mrs. Walter 
Burkhart, Mrs. Effle 
Burnett. B. E. 
Burnette, Mabel 
Burnette, Miss Myrtle 
Burton, Mrs. L. C. 
Bush, Mrs. C. W. 
Bush, Mrs. George P. 
Bushnell, Mrs. M. E. 
Busier, Ruth 
Butler, Mrs. Ed 
Butner, E. P. 
Buvinger, ('.. B. 
Cadmus, Mrs. Belle 



Cadmus, W. C. 
Call, Guy 

Caluber, Mrs. M. M. 
Campbell, Floy 
Campbell, Mrs. .1. M. 
Cardwell, Mrs. W. C. 
Carlisle, Mrs. J. K. 
Carlton, C. S. 
Carpenter, Alfred B. 
Carpenter, Sam 
Can-, Mrs. Harriet B. 
Carr, Joseph 
Carter. Mrs. E. M. 
Gary, Mrs. Will 
Case, Mrs. Nelson 
Castineau, Mrs. Nettie 
Cellars, Margaret J. 
Chaffee, AI 
Chaffee, F. 

Chambers, Rev. Grant 
Chaney, Ethel 
Chaney, Mrs. John 
Chansler, Mrs. Minnie 
Chapman, Mrs. Coma 
Chapman, William 
Chappel, Mrs. Fannie 
Chappel, Mrs. T. H. 
Chatham. J. L. 
Chatham, Mrs. J. L. 
Chatham. Miss Marguerite 
Chellis, Mrs. A. M. 
Chellis, Mrs. Jennie 
Chesley, Mrs. Vivian 
Chipley, L. B. 
Christman, Mrs. Lillian 
Christman. Pan! 
Christman, Mi's. Paul 
Christman, Mrs. S. B. 
Clarke, Prof. A. E, 
Clark, Mrs. Blanche 
Clark, Mrs. C. 
Clark, (i. H. 
Clark, Howard 
Clark, Laura 
Clark, B. I-:. 
Clark, Mrs. Sadie 
Clinckenbeard, Mrs. Will 
Cockrell, T. M. 
Coggins, C. V. 
Coggins, Mrs. C. V. 
Cohoon, U. G. 
Colopy, Mis. M. E. 
Comstock, Mrs. Harriet 



One Hundred Fifty-eight 



Condon, Mrs. Hilda 

Condon AY. II. 

Conneway, Mrs. W. L. 

Cook, J. G. 

Cook, Mrs. Mary 

C i. H. W. 

Coon, Ralph 

Cooper, Mrs. Eva 

Cooper, Mrs. J. H. 

Cooper. Mrs. W. W. 

Copes, Mrs. .1. E. 

Coppers, Mrs. II. L. 

Cordry, Miss Mm 

Cordry, Mrs. Sheffield 

Cordry, Mrs. T. A. 

Corbett, Mrs. A. R. 

Corbett.Mrs. Neota 

Corbett, Miss Sadie 

Corlett, Mrs. Mary R. 

Corns, Mrs. 

Cortelyou, L. 

Cottingham, Mrs. Laura 

Cowles, Grandma 

Cox, F. F. 

Craft, 0. L. 

Craig, Mrs. Rose 

Crane, II. D. 
Crane, Mrs. L. D. 

Cravens, Mrs. Clara 
Cravens, Miss L. 
Crawford. Mrs. Agnes R. 
Creel, Dr. J. C. 
Creel.Mrs. J. C. 
Cunningham, Mrs. Mildred 
Cunningham, Mrs. Clyde 
Curry, Mrs. Relle 
Dakan, Mrs. 0. R. 
Dale. Mrs. Charles 
Dalton, R. .1. 
Danforth, Mrs. G. L. 
Daniels, H. H. 
Dannenbaum, Max 
Dannenbaum, Mrs. Max 
Davis, Mrs. Diana 
Davis, I. N. 
Davis, Mrs. Maurice 
Davis. Dr. Otis M. 
Davis, Mrs. Otis M. 
Deardorf, Mrs. Laura E. 
Deem. A. R. 
De Laney, John 
Delay, Florence 
Deming, Robert, Sr. 



Deming, Robert, Jr. 

Dent. Charles 
Denton, Mrs. E. E. 

De Smidt, Mrs. J. 

Dick, J. R. 

Dick. Mrs. S. M. 

Dienst, Dave 

Dienst. Frank 

Disch. W. A. 

Dixon. Ryron 

Dixon, Mrs. 

Dobson, Mis. Dr. 

Dobson, Miss Lenore 

Doherty, .1. .1. 

Donnellan, T. E. 

Donnellan, Mrs. T. E. 

Doughman, C. M. 

Doughman, Milt 

Doughman, Mrs. Hariet 

Douglas, Mrs. Lizzie 

Drew, Miss Pauline 

Dryden, Mrs. J. H. 

Dryden, .1. \Y. 

Duffy,.P. P. 

Duzan. Mrs. Augusta 

Dyer, .1. M. 

Eagan, Mrs. Rert 

Eagan. Mrs. W. A. 

Eddington, Mrs. Anna 

Edmondson, R. R. 

Edmondson, Mrs. R. R. 

Edwards, C. W. 

Eggleston, Mrs. J. C. 

Elledge, S. R. 
Filer, Mrs. C. S. 

Ellis, Mrs. Anna 
Ellis. Mrs. J. F. 
Elmore, Mrs. Grace 
Elswiek, Miss Carrie 
Elswick, Lois 
Emery, Mrs. Relle 
Ervin, Mrs. C. E. 
Frvin, C. E. 
Evans, Mrs. C. I. 
Evans, O. L. 
Evans, Mrs. (). L. 
Fairbanks, Alfred 
Fairman, Mrs. Pearl 
Farrell, John 
Farris, J. R. 
Farris, Mrs. J. R. 
Feess, Otto 
Fenn, II. L. 



One Hundred Fifty-nine 



Ferch, Mrs. Anna 
Ferguson, Mrs. D. F. 
Ferguson, Miss Kate 
Fessenden, Mrs. C. B. 
Fette, A. H. 
Fitch, Charles 
Fitzsimmons, J. 
Fletcher, James 
Floyd, Mrs. Janet M. 
Flynn, Mrs. Anna 
Flynn, T. M. 
Flynn, Mrs. T. M. 
Forcum, Mrs. C. S. 
Fordyce, Mrs. C. S. 
Fordyce, Mrs. Clara 
Foley, Mrs. P. T. 
Folley, E. I. 
Foresman, Frank 
Fourier, Ralph 
Fox, Fred 
Fox, George 
Francisco, Mrs. Charles 
Francisco, Winifred 
Frertchs, Mrs. Hannah 
Frick, Phil 
Froman, Miss Nellie 
Funston, Aldo 
Funston, Mrs. Aldo 
Funston, Mrs. Maude 
Furley, E. J. 
Gaddis, Mrs. P. W. 
Gaffey, Mrs. Troy 
Gaither, Mrs. P. P. 
Gallagher, Dr. J. E. 
Gamble, Mrs. George M. 
Gary, Fern 
Gaston, Mrs. S. A. 
Gebhardt, Mrs. C. E. 
Gehring, Mrs. C. F. 
Gehrs, Charles 
George, Frank 
George, Mrs. Frank 
Gibbons, Mrs. Ed 
Gibson, Mrs. I. G. 
Gilbert, S. T. 
Gilbert, Mrs. S. T. 
Gillett, Mrs. Addie 
Gil let I, Mrs. Rose 
Glauber, Mrs. Cora 
(dick, Mrs. Alice 
Goddard, Mrs. W. P. 
Goodin, Mrs. A. A. 
Goodin, Hilma 



Goodwin, Miss Susie 
Gore, Art 
Gore, Clarence 
Gossard, Mrs. Anna B. 
Gossard, 0. 
Gottlieb, Mrs. Marion 
Gottlieb, Mrs. S. A. 
Gottlieb, Sidney 
Gould, Mrs. A. C. 
Graham, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Grant, Mrs. C. S. 
Graves, Mrs. J. P. 
Graves, Mrs. Joe 
Gray, Mrs. Mary 
Green, Mrs. E. L. 

Greer, 

Gregory, J. H. 
Gregory, J. M. 
Gregory, Mrs. J. M. 
Griffin, Wood 
Grinstead, Mrs. Mary 
Gross, Mrs. Adam 
Gross, Mrs. Eliza 
Hacker, Nora 
Hadley, Mrs. William 
Hall, A. L. 
Hall, Mrs. H. F. 
Hall. Miss Roma 
Hall, Mrs. 
Hallock, Naoma 
Halloway, Mrs. Emma 
Hambleton, Mrs. 
Hamilton, Mrs. Dr. 
Hamlin, A. B. 
Hammond, L. P. 
Hancock, Mrs. Jimmie 
Hancock, Mrs. 
Haner, A. E. 
Haner, Mrs. A. E. 
Hanson, Mrs. Ella 
Hanson, Miss Grace 
Flarden, Mrs. H. P. 
Harvey. Edith R. 
Hawke, Rev. Alexander E. 
Hawke, Miss Eleanor 
Hay. Dr. G. W. 
Hayden, G. A. 
Haynes, Jake 
Hazen. Mrs. W. P. 
Hcath.Mrs. A. L. 
Hedges, Mrs. 
Henderson, Mrs. W. E. 
Henson, Pi'. J. H. 



One Hundred Sixty 



Henson, Mrs. J. H. 
Herman, L. C. 
Hertzig, Susie 
Hester, Mrs. H. G. 
I level, Edith 
Hewitt, Hildegard 
Hicks, Mrs. W. N. 
Hill, Mrs. F. B. 
Hill, G. W. 
Hillegos, Mrs. Myrtle 
Hinds, I. M. 
Hinnen, R. 
Hoag, Mrs. K. G. 
Hoes, Mrs. C. M. 
Hoke, Mrs. A. C. 
Hoke, Miss Marion 
Holcomb, Mrs. I). 11. 
Hollar. Walter 
Holley, Mrs. E. I. 
Holliday, Mrs. E. A. 

Holman, 

Holmes, Mrs. Sadie 
Holmes. Mrs. Oliver 
Holmes, Mrs. V. A. 
Holmes, Virgil 
Holton, Mrs. Emma 
Holton, J. F. 
Hoobler, Frank 
Hooper, G. H. 
Hooper, Mrs. (den 
Hooper, Harry 
Horton, Mrs. 
Iloiin, Mrs. Ernest 
Howe. Mrs. Effie 
Howell, Miss Donna 
Howey, J. (). 
Howser, G. T. 
Hucke, Lila 
Hudgen, W. I.. 
Hudgen, Mrs. W. L. 
Hughes,Miss Lillie 
Humbert, Mrs. S. C. 
Hume, Grant 
Humphner, R. 
Humphrey, C. <). 
Humphrey, Mrs. W. E. 
Hurst, Herman 
Huston, H. R. 
[ngles, Mrs. II. C. 
tsett, Mrs. Hal 
Jackson, L. W. 
.lames. Mrs. C. E. 
Jamison, S. J. 



Jarboe, Miss Christine 
Jepson, George 
Johns, William 
Johnson, F. V. 
Johnson, Fred 
Johnson, Mrs. Fred 
Johnson, Mrs. Mabel 
Johnson, Miss Ruth 
Johnson. Mrs. W. A. 
Johnston, C. 0. 
,'olintz. Mrs. Harry 
Johntz, Mrs. Pearl Maser 
Jones, Mrs. Austin 
Jones, Mrs. Emma 
Jones, Mrs. Paul 
Jones. W. W. 
Kallenberger, Mrs. C. E. 
Karr, George 
Kelley, Arthur 
Kellond. Mrs. W. A. 
Kendall, Mrs. Charles L. 
Kennedy, Mrs. Delia M. 
Kenney, Mrs. M. J. 
Kersey, Mrs. Anna 
Kersey, Dr. .1. M. 
Kersey, Mrs. J. M. 
Kesler, Miss Bessie 
Kesler, Miss Lara 
Kesler, Mrs. W. L. 
Keys. Mrs. W. B. 
Kiblinger, Mrs. 
Kiester, Mrs. J. B. 
Kightlinger, Mrs. W. R. 
Kimball, Paul 
King, Mrs. Mabel Steele 
King, Mrs. Certrude 
Kinnick, Mrs. George 
Kintz, Mrs. L. W. 
Kirk, Euphrasia 
Kleinbane. R. M. 
Kleinhans, B. M. 
Kleinhans. Mrs. B. M. 
Kleiser, Dr. F. J. 
Knapp, Mrs. P. C. 
Knaur. 1.. M. 
Knight. Mrs. Clifford 
Knight, Mrs. Julia 
Knight, Mrs. W. C. 
Knowles. T. G. 
Knowles, Mrs. T. G. 
Koch, W. F. 
Koger, Mrs. Belle 
Kohler, Millard 



One Hundred Sixty-one 



vrietc, Mrs. A. J. 
Km 'it. Gene 

.:iin, Mrs. Eil 

,aisure, M. O. 

.amb, C. A. 

,;:ni!", Mrs. F. M. 

ancc-ster, Mrs. Smih 

,:mc, Charles 

.are: . Frank 

,arey, Fred 

.awrence, Mrs. Ilattie 

ay, W. II. 

.my. William 

ayton, Mrs. Emma 

,ee, Mrs. 0. 0. 

,eek, Fred 

.einbach, C. K. 

.eitnaker, E. H. 

.eitnaker, Mrs. E. H. 

^emley, Mrs. Lizzie A. 
Lenberger, Katherine 
Lenington, Eva M. 

.eonard, Mrs. A. L. 

.cwinsolin, M. 

..ewis, Mrsr. Beth B. 

^ewis, Mrs. Charles 

.ewis, Mrs. D. S. 

.ewis, Mrs. Josephine 

.iggett, Dr. E. E. 

■inilsay. C. R. 

.indsav. Mrs. C. R. 

■indsay, Roy 

,ockwood,Miss Eva 

,onberger, Miss Kiltie 
Long, Miss Lorena 

,ong, Miss Matilda 

.ong, R. E. 

-ong, Hay 

onm ' ker, Mrs. M. M. 

oper, Mrs. Ola 

.ovel! Mrs. J. A. 

,ii, ms, Dr. A. 1). 

ncas, Mrs. A. 1). 

ugenbeal, A. L. 

,ugenbeal, Mrs. Mamie 

,ynd, Miss Lena 
yons, Mrs. George I). 

yons, George D. 

IcAleer, W. F. 

IcAleer, W. II. 

IcBride, Mrs. Nancy 

JcBride, Mrs. Walter 
:, cBride, Mrs. Sr. 



McCaffrey, Mrs. .1. B. 

McCarthy, Loretta 

McCarty, A. H. 

McCarty, Mrs. A. II. 

McConnell, Mrs. Mayme 

McCormick, Mrs. Adelbert 

McCray, C. S. 

McCreary, I". C. 

McCuIlough, Father 

McDole, Mary 

McDonald, Mrs. N. 

McDowell, Mrs. Nellie 

McElwee, Mrs. M. S. 

McGee, .1. C. 

McGee, Mrs. Ruby 

McGregor, Mrs. Kate S. 

McKee, Mrs. W. C. 

McKec.Will 

McKiernan, Bev. Father B. .1. 

McKnight, A. S. 

McKnight, M. J. 

McKnight, Mrs. M. J. 

McKnight, Mrs. Sarah 

McLoud, Donald 

Maclean, Mrs. E. Potter 

Maclean, Bev. B. E. 

Maclean, Mrs. B. E. 

Madden, Mabel 

Maddock, Mrs. W. II. 

Mann, L. S. 

Marburger, Mrs. Eva 

Marley, Miss Ida 

Marshall, Miss Cora M. 

Martin, C. B. 

Martin, Mrs. C. B. 

Martin, Mrs. E. II. 

Martin, Mrs. Isabel 

Martin, John 

Martin, Miss Mary 

Martin, W. II. 

Martin. Mrs. W. H. 

Maser, Mrs. G. W. 

Maser, George 

Maser, Mrs. George 

Maser. Mrs. John 

Massey, Mrs. G. B. 

May, H. B. 

May, F. W. 

May, Mrs. F. W. 

Mayberry, C. P.. 

Meador, Mrs. Rose 

Medaris, Mrs. H. A. 



One Hundred Sixty-two 



Medcalf, Mrs. Bertha 
Meeks, Mrs. M. 
Meir, Goerge 
Merrill, Gray 
Miller, C. M. 
Miller, C. N. 
Miller, Mrs. Ed. 
Miller, Miss Grace 
Milhr. Mrs. Maud 
Miller, Miss Nora 
Miller, Prof. Oral 
Miller, Mrs. W. E. 
Miller, Mrs. Sr. 
Mills, Miss Hazel 
Missildine, Mrs. Helen 
Missildine, Dr. .1. G. 
Missildine, Mrs. .1. ('.. 
Moake, Mrs. Fred. H. 
Modlin, Miss Mabel 
Moffatt. John 

Mollenhour, Miss Retha B. 
Monohan, E. A. 
Montgomery, Mrs. F. W. 
Montgomery, R. II. 
Moore, Miss Dorothy 
Moore. Mrs. F. II. 
Moore, Mrs. .1. A. 
Moore, Mrs. .1. 0. 
Moore. Mrs. James 
Moore, Miss Mattie 
Moore, Miss Mina 
Moore, Mrs. Niles 
Morgan, Mrs. .1. M. 
Moriarty, C. H. 
Morley, J. W. 
Morning, Mrs. W. .1. 
Morris, Clara 
Morris, II. W. 
Morris, Mrs. II. W. 
Mortimer, Mrs. Ida 
Mortimer, Mrs. W. S. 
Mosher, Will 
Mullen, Miss Zenith 
Munn, H. I). 
Munneke, Dr. S. A. 
Munneke, Mrs. S. A. 
Murphy, Mrs. Ed. 
Murphy, Jimmie 
Murphy, Miss 
Murray, Mrs. T. A. 
Musser, Mrs. Martha I!. 
Myers. Mrs. E. I). 
Nading, Mrs. George 



Nading, Mrs. Sr. 
Nafus, Mrs. Anna 
Nagle, Mrs. 1>. J. 
Nance, E. S. 
Neal, Mrs. Charles Y 
Neal, Mrs. (). II. 
Needs, Mrs. J. A. 
Neely, Isabel 
Neely, Mildred Worth 
Neligh, W. T. 
Nelson, F. W. 
Xevins, Mrs. 
Newton, Mrs. S. R. 
Noble, P. M. 
Norfleet, Dott 
Noyes, Mrs. A. 
Xoves. Mrs. A. H. 
O'Brien, J. F. 
O'Brien, Roy F. 
O'Brien. Mrs. T. 
O'Brien, Miss Theresa 
O'Bryan, II. L. 
O'Connell, Dan 
O'Connor, J. P. 
O'Herin, E. F. 
O'Herin, Edward 
Olson, J. C. 
Olson, Minnie 
Olson, Mrs. Shirlej 
Orchard, Mrs. Ida Dunn 
Orchard, Mrs. R. T. 
Orme, Mrs. Carrie 
Osgood, Miss Clara 
Osgood, Helen 
( Iwens, Ben 
Owens. Mrs. Bertha 
Owens, Grant 
Owens, Mrs. Mary 
Parker, Mrs. A. L. 
Parker, Mrs. Nellie 
Parks, Mrs. Ella 
Parks, Mrs. Nellie 
Parnell, Mrs. Carrie 
Parnell, Henry 
Patrick, Mrs. Bosa 
Patterson. Mrs. S. E. 
Peak, Mrs. O. H. 
Peck. Evelyn 
Peckham, Mrs. M. C. 
Pefley, Miss Rachel 
Pendarvis, Mrs. G. F. 
Perkins, Mrs. C. A. 
Perkins, C. S. 



One Hundred Sixty-three 



Perkins, Fred 
Perkins, Mrs. Fred 
Perry, Bertha 
Perry, Miss Loura Dale 
Perry M. L. 
Peters, Mrs. Charles 
Peters, Mrs. E. H. 
Peters, Mrs. Ida 
Pever, Mrs. J. H. 
Pever, Miss Kittie 
I'fat'f, George 
Pfeiffer, Frank A. 
Phillipy, Alex 
Pierson, J. J. 
Pierson, Lola 
Pile, C. E. 
Pile. Clair 

Pilkington, Mrs. M. E. 
Piper, Miss Helen 
Poole, Homer 
Pooh', Mrs. Homer 
Poole, Mrs. {Catherine 
Potter, Mrs. T. B. 
Pratt, Mrs. George W. 
Prentice, Mrs. 
Pressey, Mrs. F. M. 
Preston. Miss Jessie 
Preston, Mrs. Kate 
Price, M. M. 
Pritchard, Mrs. Nellie 
Proctor, Frank 
Queree, Mrs. Dorcas 
Quirk, Mrs. Albert 
Rakistraw, Ellsworth 
Rakistraw, .1. E. 
Ranilow, Mrs. R. C. 
Raschen, Edward 
Head. Mrs. 11. K. 
Meed. Mrs. Claude 
Reed, Esther 
P.eed. .1. \Y. 
Reed, Miss Mildred 
Reeves, Dr. F. C. 
Reeves, Mrs. T. P.. 
Reid, II. F. 
Reid, Mrs. II. F. 
Reid, Mrs. James 
Reid, Miss Mildred 
Reily, Mis. Anna C. 
Reily, Miss Frances 
Reily, Mrs. J. F. 
Reily, .1. F. 
Resboro, Mrs. Eda 



Reynolds, Mrs. Claude 
Reynolds, Mrs. Frances 
Reynolds, Miss ( (live 
Rhodes, Mrs. Charles 
Rhodes, Mrs. John 
Rhodes, Miss Vehna 
Richmond, R. 
Richardson, Miss Mabel 
Richcreek, Mrs. J. C. 
Riley, Mrs. Albert 
Riley, Norman 
Riley, Miss Norman 
Roach, Mrs. Amanda 
Roberts, J. Q. 
Robinson, Mrs. A. I). 
Rockhold, Dolph 
Rockhold, J. R. 
Romine, I). S. 
Roinine, Mrs. Hi 
Rosell, Mrs. A. M. 
I!otter, Mrs. Julian 
I lowland, Helen 
Rowland, Zaida 
Rude, Miss Alice 
Rude, Miss Ilallie 
Rude, Leonard 
Ruethinger, Carl 
Hummel, Mrs. R. F. 
Russell, Mrs. Clela 
Rust, J. H. 
Rust, Ralph 
Rutegen, Mrs. Anna 
Ruvane, M. C. 
Saffell, Mrs. S. R. 
Sauter, Mrs. A. E. 
Sauter, Mrs. Anna 
Sauter, Miss Ruth 
Saylor, James 
Saylor, Mrs. Mabel 
Saj lor, < Ipaline 
Saylor, Velma 
Schilde, Mrs. 
Scott. Mrs. Anna K. 
Scott, Mrs. .1. 1). 
Scott, Leta M. 
Scott. Miss Mary 
Scott, Mrs. T. H. 
Scranton, Mrs. Lee 
Searles, Mrs. R. E. 
Sedgewick, Mary 
See. Mrs. B. J. 
Seifert, C. 
Shackelford, J. E. 



One Humlt<<I Sixty-four 



Sheddy, Mrs. W. B. 
Shepherd, Mrs. Mattie 
Sherman. Mrs. E. L. 
Shide, Mrs. Ida M. 
Shone, Mrs. M. A. 
Shone, Miss Mamie 
Shone. Miss Nellie 
Silcott. C.F. 

Simpson. Mrs. Samuel G. 
Singhiser, Mrs. Nancy 
Skelton. Miss Lena 
Slane. Edward 
Slaughter, Mrs. .1. M. 
Sly, V. R. 
Smalley. H. H. 
Smith, Dr. Albert 
Smith. Mrs. Albert 
Smith, Asa 
Smith. Mrs. Carrie 
Smith. Miss Cora 
Smith. J. S. 
Smith. Mrs. Laura P». 
Smith. Miss Vesta 
Smith. W. S. 
Snook. Mrs. .1. M. 
Snyder, Thomas 
Southwick, Mis. Pearl 
Southwick, Will 
Spangle, Mrs. George H. 
Sparrow. Harry 
Sparrow, Mrs. Mel 
Spooner, C. E. 
Spooner, Mrs. ('.. E. 
Sprague, Alice 
Sprague, T. A. 
Staige, Miss Geraldine 
Staige, Mrs. W. E. 
Stallings, Ralph 
Stavelev. Rev. .1. A. 
St Clair. Mrs. Britus 
Steele. Charles 
Steele. Emily 
Steele. Emma 

Steele. .1. F. 
Steele. Mrs. Mabel 
Steele. Mell 
Stevens, Mrs. F. C. 
Stevens, Mrs. Frank 
Stephens. F. T. 
Stephens. Mrs. Martha 
Stevens, E. R. 
Stevenson. Mrs. Clifford 
Stice, George F. 



Stocker, Mrs. Fred 1'. 
Stone. Mrs. Flora 
Stone, B. T. 
Strasburger, H. 
Strasburger, Mrs. Will 
Struve. Mrs. E. W. 
Swain, Mrs. Faudia E. 
Swalm. L. < t. 
Swanson, Mrs. C. 11. 
Swanwick. A. D. 
Swartzell, W. H. 
Taft. B. I.. 
Taft, Mrs. B. L. 
Tarr, Mrs. W. E. 
Taylor. C. .1. 
Taylor. Mrs. H. C. 
Taylor. Mrs. Mary 
Taylor. Mrs. Ray 
Taylor, Scott 
Taylor, Mrs. Scott 
Taylor. W. G. 
Taussig. Mrs. James Sr. 
Tedstrom, Mrs. Ota 
Templeton, H. 
•Tharp, Mrs. (). .1. 
Thicket), A. R. 
Thomas, Mrs. Anna 
Thomas. Mrs. E. A. 
Thomasson, Mrs. R. E. 
Thompson, Mrs. D. M. 
Thompson, Mrs. Gordon 
Thompson, W. W. 
Thornton, Betty 
Thurston, George 
Tierney. Mrs. .1. R. 
Tilleston, Mrs. 
Todd. Mrs. T. A. 
Tomlinson, Miss Blanche 
Townsend, Allen 
Townsend. Dr. P. A. 
Trotter, T. L. 
Trullinger, Mrs. Roy 
Turner. Mrs. John 
Tyler, Mrs. J. F. 
I'buch. Ethel 
Underwood, Mrs. A. B. 
I pham. Mrs. 1". W. 
Van Alstine, Sam 
Vance. J. S. 
Vance. Mrs. J. S. 
Vance. Miss Phyllis 
Vance, Mrs. Sylvia 
Vandermark, Mrs. Jo 



One Hundred Sixty-five 



Van Meter, I. D. 
Van Meter, Will J. 
Van Slyke, Mrs. L. B. 
Veach, Mrs. W. R. 
Vedder, Louise 
Vezie, N. L. 
Vollmer, Mrs. John 
Von Grafen, Agnes Rose 
Von Trebo, Henry 
Waite, Mrs. J. L. 
Waite, Mrs. Joe 
Walker, L. A. 
Wall, Mrs. G. C. 
Wallen, E. A. 
Waller, Mrs. L. L. 
Wallingford, D. H. 
Walser, Mrs. Lora H. 
Walsh, J. L. 
Warbington, Elmer 
Waters, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Waters, Mrs. G. D. 
Waters, Mrs. Robert 
Watt, Mrs. Emma 
Watt, F. M. 
Watt, Mrs. R. A. 
Webb, Mrs. Carrie 
Webb, Mrs. J. 0. 
Weeks, Mrs. W. H. 
Weeks, W. R. 
Weeks, Mrs. W. R. 
Weisbrod, Mrs. Theo 
Wells, Ed. 
Wells, Mrs. W. E. 
Westhoff, W. H. 
Wharton, Mrs. Ceola 
Whealand, Maud 
Wheat, May 
Wheat, Naoma 
Wheeler, F. E. 
Wheeler, Mrs. 
Wherry, Mrs. Ira 
Whitby, C. G. 
White, Ethel M. 
White, Dr. George R. 
White, Mrs. George 



White, J. C. 

Widmer, Mrs. Eliza A. 

Widmer, Mrs. W r illiam 

W r iggins, Mrs. Chloe 

Willey, C. E. 

Willey, Mrs. L. L. 

Williams, Jack 

Williams, Mrs. Mary 

Williams, Mrs. Wanda 

Williamson, Dr. J. A. 

Willis, H. P. 

Willis, Marie Frances 

Wilson, A. B. 

Wilson, Mrs. J. 0. 

Wilson, Mrs. J. W. 

Wilson, Mrs. Press 

Wilson, Mrs. Sallie 

Wilson, Mrs. 

Wimmer, Mrs. Fred 

Wimmer, Mrs. Lizzie 

Wimmer, Miss Ruth 

Wirt, Katherine 

Wirt, W. .1. 

Wise, Verna 

Wiseman, Rev. 
Witt, P. B. 
Woodruff, Bert 
Woodruff, G. A. 
Woodruff, Mrs. G. A. 
Woods, Mrs. J. W. 
Woods, Mrs. Amanda 
Woods, Mrs. Margaret E. 
Woods, O. E. 
Woods, Mrs. 0. E. 
Woods, Mrs. Ola 
Woolover, Charles 
Workman, Mrs. A. C. 
Works, Mrs. Marion 
Wright, C. L. 
Wright, Mrs. G. T. 
Wright, Mrs. Olive 
Young, Mrs. George 
Young, Mrs. Hattie 
Young, Mrs. James 



One Hundred Sixty-six 




Pvt. A. L. Bogen. Co. A, 140th Regt. Inf., formerly the 3d and 6th Regt. Inf. Mo. N. G.. and Pvt. 
F. G. Price, Co. A, 140th Regt. Inf., both wounded but still able to feed Paul Sacker, a German prisoner. 
Cheppy. Meuse, Varennes, France, Sept. 2'.». 1918. 




Four Good Looking Girls Unmasked, a convincing proof that beauty is only skin deep. Left to right: 
Eric Krebs, Eddie Crawford, William Pauly and Daniel Burns. 27th Division. Oudozeele, France. August 
4. 1918. 



One Hundred Sixty-seven 



®Itp lints 



(The Provocation.) 
Believing theirs a race of super-men. 

For forty years ambitious, vicious Huns 
Looked forward to that lurid morning when 

They'd use their subtle subs, their gas and guns. 

Believing they held grace in God's own sight, 
That "'will to power" is truly ultimate, 

That trick and might, forsooth, make all means 
right, 
They thought the world was theirs to confiscate. 

June 8th, 1919. 
The Serbian signal set the fatal hour 

And flashed the fire into the fuse of war. 
Which spread with light'ning speed from power to 
power. 
Till all the world was in a wild uproar. 

August, 1914. 
At once with wanton cruelty, on they came 

Thru helpless Belgium into dauntless France 
Despoiling same. With gas and liquid flame 

And bomb and shell their hellish hoards advance. 

Sept. 6-10, 1914. Jan. -Feb., 1915. 
But at the Marne the sons of France hold fast, 

And for a time the tide of war they turn ; 
Reserves are called for and reinforcements vast 

The Huns receive. Then for revenge they burn ! 

April 22, 1915. 
To them all rules of war are but "a scrap 

Of paper." So, helpless victims writhe in pain 
At Yyre's trap, — the gas '. At this ghoul hap 

Whole reg'ments fall and die, like sickled grain. 

April, 1915. 
The Prussian monster, sure to conquer France 

And then bring haughty England to her knees 
Gave reign to ruthlessness and arrogance 

And visioncd vassal states across the seas. 



May. 1915. 
He now believes he'll vanquish all that floats 

And thinks WE might as well be in the fray; 
We have, be notes, no army, guns or boats. 

And whether in or not, we'll be his prey. 

May 7th, 1915. 
A warning note brings us assurance, then 

The Lusitania sinks beneath the waves. 
And "super-men" but smile as neutrals (men. 

Women and children), to to wat'ry graves. 

April. 1916. 
At this the Yankee nerves are over-wrought, 

Their patience lost, and few now hope for peace; 
Good Wilson's haughty notes availeth naught 

But promises, while sinkings do not cease. 

July 9th, Nov. 1st 1916. Oct. 7, 1916. 
Audacious, wily, foolish Huns twice sent 

The Deutschland submarine unto our shore; 
That we might know full well the threat this meant 

There came the U-53 all armed for war. 

October Sth, 1916. 
Just off our coast (to more impress this power). 

It sank five ships, whose passengers and crews 
Were left to cower adrift, till saved by our 
Good ships, which dare not give the U's their dues. 

January 31st, 1917. 
At last they boldly say, the submarine 

Will do its work in spite of all our roar. 
Then, April sixth in nineteen seventeen, 

Our Congressmen declare "We Are at War." 

At three a. m. the fateful vote was cast ; 

The words were flashed o'er ever wire before 
The night had passed. The Extras cried, "At last 

The dreaded day has come. We Are at War." 

— M. D. Ailcs 




A captured German Submarine — at Brest, France 



One Hundred Sixty-eight 



&ummanj of Jarta of Ammran ^arttriu aitmt in 
thr Wavih Har 191 <- 101 B 



(Compiled by War Department.) 



FIGURES OF AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN THK WAR. 



Total armed forces, including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, etc 4,8(10,01)0 

Total men in the Army 4,000,000 

Men who went overseas 2,086,000 

Men who fought in France 1,390,000 

Greatest number sent in one month 300,000 

Greatest number returning in one month 333,000 

Tons of supplies shipped from America to France 7,500,000 

Total registered in draft 24,234,021 

Total draft inductions 2,810,296 

(neatest number inducted in one month 4(10,000 

Graduate of Line Oflicers' Training Schools 80,568 

Cost of war to April 30, 1919 $21,850,000,000 

Cost of Army to April 30, 101!) ....$13,930,000,000 

Battles fought by American troops 13 

Months of American participation in the war 19 

Days of battle 200 

Days of duration of Meuse-Argonne battle -17 

Americans in Meuse-Argonne battle 1.200,000 

American casualties in Meuse-Argonne battle 120.000 

American battle deaths in war 50,000 

American wounded in war 206,000 

American deaths from disease 57.5011 

Total deaths in the Army 115.500 



THK SELECTIVE SERVICE. 

The willingness with which the American people accepted the universal draft 
was the most remarkable feature in the history of our preparation for war. 

It is a noteworthy evidence of the enthusiastic support given by the country to 
the war program that, despite previous hostility to the principle of universal 
liability for military service, a few months after the selective service law was 
passed, the standing of the drafted soldier was fully as honorable in the estimation 
of his companions and of the country in general as was that of the man who enlisted 



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R>?p-is*erpd 

10679,814 
13,228,762 


Inducted 

2 666,867 
120,157 


Per Cent 
Inducted 

25 

1 


325,445 


23,272 


7 


24,234,1121 


2,810,296 


12 



voluntarily. Moreover, the record of desertions from the army shows that the total 
was smaller than in previous wars and a smaller percentage occurred among drafted 
men than among those who volunteered. The selective service law was passed on 
May 19, 1017, and as subsequently amended it mobilized all the man power of the 
Nation from the ages of 18 to 45, inclusive. Under this act, 24,234,021 men were 
registered and slightly more than 2,800,000 were inducted into the military service. 
All this was accomplished in a manner that was fair to the men, supplied the array 
with soldiers as rapidly as they could he equipped and trained, and resulted in a 
minimum of disturbance to the industrial and economic life of the Nation. 

The first registration, June 5, 1917, covered the ages from 21 to 31. The second 
registration, one year later (June 5, 1018, and Aug. 21, 1018), included those who 
had become 21 years old since the first registration. The third registration (Sept. 
12, 1918), extended the age limits downward to 18 and upward to 45. The total 
number registered with the proportion who were actually inducted in the service is 
shown below: 

Men Registered and Inducted. 

Registration Aee Limit 

First and second 21 to 31 

Third 18 to 20 

... , . . . , r, r, ■ (18 to 45 | 

Alaska, Hawaii, anil Porto Rico.... - ^., J Q j- J 

Total 18~to 45 



FOUR MILLION MEN 

The number of men serving in the armed forces of the Nation during the 
war was 4.800,000, of whom 4,000,000 served in the army. 

In the war with Germany the United States raised twice as many men as 
did the Northern States in the Civil War, hid only half as many in proportion to 
the population. 

The British sent more men to France in their first year of war than we did 
in our first year, but it took England three years to reach a strength of 2,000,000 
men in France, and the United States accomplished it in one-half of that time. 

Of every 100 men who served, 10 were National Guardsmen, 13 were 
Regulars, and 77 were in the National Army (or would have been if the services had 
not been consolidated.) 

Of the 51.000,000 males in the population, 26,000,000 wire registered in the 
draft or were already in service. 

In this war twice as many men were recruited as in the Civil War and at 
native born better than foreign born. 

In this war twice as many men were recruited as in the Civil War and at 
one-twentieth of the recruiting cost. 

There were 200.000 army officers. Of every six officers, one had previous 
military training with troops, three were graduates of officers' training camps, and 
two came directly from civil life. 



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SOLDIERS FURNISHED RY EACH STATE. 



New York 367,865 

Pennsylvania 207,801 

Ulionis 251,1174 

Ohio 200.203 

Texas 161,005 

Michigan 135,485 

Massachusetts 132.010 

Missouri 128,544 

California 112,51 I 

Indiana 100.581 

New Jersey 105,207 

Minnesota 90.1 10 

Iowa 0S.7S1 

Wisconsin 08,211 

Georgia 85.500 

Oklahoma 80.100 

Tennessee 75,825 

Kentucky 75,043 

Alabama 74,078 

Virginia 73,0(12 

North Carolina 73.ini:! 

Louisiana 65,988 

K; »nsas 63,428 

Arkansas 01,027 

West Virginia 55*777 

Mississippi 54,295 

South Carolina 53,482 

Connecticut 50,000 

Nebraska 47,305 



Maryland . . 47,054 

Washington .. 45,154 

Montana 30,203 

Colorado 34,303 

Florida .. 33,331 

Oregon 30,110 

South Dakota 20,080 

North Dakota 25,803 

Maine 24.252 

Waho 19,016 

Utah 17,3(11 

Rhode Island 16,861 

Porto Rico k;,.-,3,s 

District of Columbia 15,030 

New Hampshire 14,374 

New Mexico 12,430 

Wyoming 11,303 

Arizona 10,402 

Vermont 0,338 

Delaware 7,434 

Hawaii 5^44 

Nevada 5,105 

Alaska 2,102 

A - E. F. 1,499 

Not allocated 1.308 

Philippines 255 

T °tal 3,757,624 




Napokan ChaUau at St. Nazaire, Fra 



One Hundred Seventy-one 



PLACE OF ORGANIZATION OF DIVISIONS AND SOURCES RY STATES 



Division 
Regulars : 


Camp 


States from which drawn. 

Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 
Regulars. 

Regulars. 

Regulars. 

New England. 

New York. 

Pennsylvania. 

New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia. 

Tennessee. North Carolina, South Carolina. 

1 Georgia, Alabama. Florida. 

Michigan. Wisconsin. 

Illinois. 

Nebraska. Iowa. S. Dakota. Minnesota. N. Dakota. 

Missouri, Kansas. 

Texas, Oklahoma. 

Ohio. 

Indiana. Kentucky. West Virginia. 

Arkansas. Mississippi. Louisiana. 

California, Colorado. Utah, Arizona, New Mexico. 

Various States. 

Various States. 

New England. New York. 

New York City. 

Western New York, New Jersey, Delaware. 

Northeastern Pennsylvania. Maryland. District of Columb 

Virginia. West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania. 

North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Porto Rico. 

Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee. 

Ohio. Western Pennsylvania. 

Kentucky, Indiana. Southern Illinois. 

Michigan. Eastern Wisconsin. 

Chicago. Northern Illinois. 

Arkansas. Louisiana. Mississippi. Southern Alabama. 

North Dakota. Minnesota, Iowa. Western Illinois. 

Kansas, Missouri. South Dakota. Nebraska. 

Texas. Oklahoma. 

Alaska. Washington. Oregon. California. Idaho, Nebrasi 

Montana. Wyoming, Utah. 
Colored, various State. 
Colored, various State. 










3rd 

4th 


Greene. N. C 

Greene. N. C 

Logan, Texas.... 

McClellan. Ala 

MacArthur. Tex 

Fremont. Calif 




5th 




6th 








Sth 




9th 




10th 




11th 




































18th 


Travis, Texas 

Sevier, S. C 

Devens, Mass 

Wadsworth. S. C 




19th 




20th 

National Guard: 

"71b 






Hancock, Ga 

McClellan, Ala 

Sevier. S. C 

Wheeler. Ga 

MacArthur, Texas 




29th 

30th 

31st 










Cody, N. Mexico 












Bowie. Texas 

Sheridan. Ohio 

Shelby. Miss 

Beauregard. La 

Fremont. Calif 

Mills, N.Y 




























National Army : 


Dev* us, Mass 

Upton.N. Y 

Dix, N. J 

Lee, Va 

Jackson, S. C 

Sherman. Ohio 

Zachary Taylor. Ky 

Grant. !1) 

Pike. Ark 

Dodge, Iowa 

Funston. Kans 

Travis. Texas 

Lewis. Wash 

Stuart. Va 










ia. 


































88th 

89th 






a. 


93rd 





One Hundred Seventy-two 



SIX MONTHS OF TRAINING 

The average American soldier who fought in France had six months of train- 
ing here, two months overseas before entering the line, and one month in a quiet 
sector before going into battle. 

Mosl soldiers received their trainnig in infantry divisions which are our 
typical combat units and consist of about 1,000 officers and 27,000 men. 

; Forty -two divisions were sent to France. 

More than two-thirds of our line officers were graduates of the officers' 
training camps. 

France and England sent to the United States nearly 800 specially skilled 
officers and noncommissioned officers who rendered most important aid as in- 
structors in our training camps. 

TRANSPORTING 10,000 MEN A DAY 

During our nineteen months of war more than 2,000,000 American soldiers 
were carried to France. Half a million of these went over in the first thirteen 
months and a million and a half in the last six months. 

The highest troop-carrying records are those of July, 1018, when 300,000 
soldiers were carried to Europe, and .lime, 1011), when 364,000 kere brought home to 
America. 

Most of the troops who sailed for France left from New York. Half of 
them landed in England and the other half landed in France. 

Among every 100 Americans who went over 4!) went in British ships, 45 in 
American ships, 3 in Italian, 2 in French, and 1 in Russian shipping under English 
control. 

Our cargo ships averaged one complete trip every 70 days and our troop 
ships one complete trip every 35 days. 

The cargo fleet was almost exclusively American. It reached the size of 
2,700.000 deadweight tons and carried to Europe about 7.500,000 tons of cargo. 

'fhe greatest troop-carrier among all the ships has been the "Leviathan," 
which landed 12,000 men, or the equivalent of a German division, in France every 
month. 

The fastest transports have been the "Great Northern" and the "Northern 
Pacific," which have made complete turnarounds, taken on new troops, and started 
hack again in nineteen days. 

47.000 TELEGRAMS A DAY 

In order to operate the transportation of supplies in France, a new system of 
communication had to he set up; so the Signal Corps strung its wires over nearly 
ever} part of France. 

Trunk lines led from all the principal ports to Paris, to Tours, and to general 
headquarters hack of the American battle areas. The lines running to Coblenz for 
the army of occupation were taken over from the Germans. At the time of the 
signing of the armistice the Signal Corps was operating 282 telephone exchanges 



One Hundred Seventy-three 



and 133 complete telegraph stations. The telephone lines numbered 1 4,056, reaching 
8,959 stations. More than 100,000 miles of wire had been strung. The peak load of 
operation reached was 47,")").") telegrams a day, averaging 60 words each. 

FOOD. CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT 

The problems of feeding and clothing the Army were difficult because of the 
immense quantities involved rather than because of the difficulty of manufacturing 
the articles needed. 

Requirements for some kinds of clothing for the Army were more than twice 
as great as the prewar total American production of the same articles. 

To secure the articles needed lor the Army the Government had to commandeer 
all the wool and some other staple articles in the United States and control pro- 
duction through all its stages. 

The distribution of supplies in the expeditionary forces required the creation of 
an organization called the Services of Supply, to which one-fourth of all the troops 
who went overseas were assigned. 

American Engineers built in France seventeen new ship berths, 1,(10(1 miles of 
standard-gauge track, and 12a miles of narrow-gauge track. 

The Signal Corps strung in France 1110,(1(1(1 miles of telephone and telegraph 
wire. 

Prior to the armistice -10,000 trucks were shipped to the forces in France. 

Construction projects in the United States cost twice as much as the Panama 
canal, and construction overseas was on nearly as large a scale. 

The Army in France always had enough food ami clothing. 

SPRINGFIELDS, ENFIELDS AND BROWNINGS 

When war was declared the Armv bad on hand nearly 600,000 Springfield rifles. 
Their manufacture was continued ,and the American Engfield designed and put into 
production. 

The total production of Springfield and Engfield rifles up to the signing of the 
armistice was over 2,500.000. 

The use of machine guns on a large scale is a development of the European 
war. In the American Army the allowance in 1912 was four machnie guns per 
regiment. In 1919 the new Army plans provided for an equipment of 33(1 guns per 
regiment, or eighty-four times as many. 

The entire number of American machine guns produced to the end of 191<S was 
227.000. 

During the war the Browning automatic rifle and the Browning machine gun 
were developed, put into quantity production, and used in large numbers in the 
final battles in France. 

The Browning machine guns are believed to be more effective than the cor 
rseponding weapons used in anj other army. 

American production of small arms ammunition amounted to approximately 
3.500,00(1,0(10 rounds, of which 1,800,000,000 were shipped overseas. 



One Hundred Seventy-four 



TWO THOUSAND (HNS ON THE FIRING LINE 

When war was declared the United States had sufficient light artillery to equip 
an army of 500,000 nun, and shortly found itself with the problem of preparing to 
equip 5,000,000 men. 

To meet the situation it was deeided in June, 11)17. to allot our guns to training 
purposes and to equip our forces in France with artillery conforming to the French 
and British standard calibers. 

It was arranged that we should purchase from the French and British the 
artillery needed for our first divisions and ship them in return equivalent amounts 
of steel, copper, and other raw materials so that they could either manufacture guns 
for us in their own factories or give us guns out of their stocks and replace them 

b\ new ones made from our materials. 

Up to the end of April, 1919, the number of complete artillery units produced 
in American plants was more than 3,000, or equal to all those purchased from the 
French and British during the war. 

The number of rounds of complete artillery ammunition produced in Amercian 
plants was in excess of 20,000,000 as compared with 10,000,000 rounds secured from 
the French and British. 

In the first 20 months after the declaration of war by each country the British 
did better than we did in the production of light artillery, and we excelled them in 
producing heavy artillery and both light and heavy shells. 

So far as the Allies were concerned, the European war was in large measure 
fought with American powder and high explosives. 

At the end of the war American production of smokeless powder was 45 per 
cent greater than the French and British production combined. 

At the end of the war the American production of high explosives was 41) per 
cent greater than Great Britain's and nearly double thct of France. 

During the war America produced 10,(100 tons o' g: s, much of which was sold 
to the French and British. 

Out of every hundred days that our con bat divisions were in line in France 
they were supported by their own artillery for 75 davs, by British artillery for 5 
days, and by French for 1% days. Of the remaining I <S ' _• days that they were in line 
without artillery, 1<S days were in quiet sectors, and only one-half of 1 day in each 
hundred was in active sectors. 

In round numbers, we had in France 3 500 pieces of artillery, of which nearly 
500 were made in America, and we used on the firing line 2.250 pieces, of which over 
100 were made in America. 

AIRPLANES, MOTORS AND BABOONS 

()n the declaration of war the United States had 55 training airplanes, of which 
51 were classed as obsolete ami the other four as obsolescent. 

When we entered the war the Allies made the designs of their planes available 
to us an. I before the end of hostilities furnished us from their own manufacture 
3,800 service planes. 



On? Hundred Seventy-five 



Aviation training schools in the United States graduated 8,0(12 men from ele- 
mentary courses and 4,028 from advanced courses. More than 5,000 pilots and 
observers were sent overseas. 

The total personnel of the Air Service, officers, students, and enlisted men, in- 
creased from 1,200 at the outbreak of the war to nearly 200,000 at its close. 

There were produced in the United States to November 30, 1918, more than 
8,000 training planes and more than 16,000 training engines. 

The De Havilland-4 observation and day bombing plane was the only plane the 
United Sttacs put into quantity production. Before the signing of the armistice 
3,227 had been completed and 1,885 shipper overseas. The plane was successfully 
used at the front for three months. 

The production of the 12-eylinder Liberty engine was America's chief con- 
tribution to aviation. Before the armistice 13,572 had been completed, 4,435 shipped 
to the expeditionary forces, and 1,025 delivered to the Allies. 

The first fivers in action wearing the American uniform were members of the 
Lafayette Escadrille, who were transferred to the Amrecian service in December, 
1017. 

The American air force at the front grew from three squadrons in April to 45 
in November, 1918. On November 11 the 45 squadrons had an equipment of 740 
planes. 

Of 2,008 planes sent to the /.one of the advance for American aviators 007, or 
nearly one-fourth, were of American manufacture. 

American air squadrons played important roles in the battles of Chateau- 
Thierry, St. Mihicl, and the Meuse-Argonne. They brought down in combat 755 
enemy planes, while their own losses of planes numbered only 357. 

THIRTEEN MAJOB OPEBATIONS IN WHICH AMERICANS PARTICIPATED 

Approximate 
Operation. number of 

Americans 
engaged 
West front — Campaign of 11)17: 

Cambrai, Nov. 20 to Dec. 4 2 500 

West front— Campaign of 1918: 

German offensives, March 21 to Julv 28 — 

Somme, March 21 to April 2.200 

Lys, April to 27 500 

Aisne, Max 27 to June 5 27,500 

Noyon-Montdidier, June !) to 15 27,000 

Champagne-Marne, July 15 to 18 85,00(1 

Allied offensives, Julv 18 to Nov. 11 — 

Aisne-Marne, July 18 to Aug. fi 270,000 

Somme, August 8 to November 11 54,000 

Oise-Aisne, August 18 to November 11 85.000 

Ypres-Lvs, August 10 to November 11 108,000 

St. Mihicl, September 12 to 16 550,000 

Meuse-Argonne, September 20 to November 11. 1,200.000 

Italian front — Campaign of 1018: 

Vittorio-Veneto. October 21 to November 1 1.200 



One Hundred Seventy-six 



TWO HUNDRED DAYS OF BATTLE 

Two out of every three American soldiers who reached France took part in 
battle. The number who reached France was 2,084,000, and of these 1,390,000 saw 
active service at the front. 

Of the 42 divisions that reached France 2!) took part in active combat service. 
Seven of them were Regular Army divisions, 11 were organized from the National 
Guard, and 11 were made up of National Army troops. 

American divisions were in battle for 200 days and engaged in 13 major 
operations. 

From the middle of August until the end of the war the American divisions held 
during the greater part of the time a front longer than that held by the British. 

In October the American divisions held 101 miles of line, or 23 per cent of the 
entire western front. 

On the 1st of April the Germans had a superiority of 324,000 in rifle strength. 
Due to American arrivals the allied strength exceeded that of the Germans in June 
and was more than 000,000 above it in November. 

In the battle of St. Mihiel 550,000 Americans were engaged, as compared with 
about 100,000 on the Northern side in the battle of Gettysburg. The artillery fired 
more than 1.000,000 shells in four hours, which is the most intense concentration of 
artillery fire recorded in history. 

The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted for 47 days, during which 1,200,000 American 
troops were engaged. 




Piling 'em up in France 



One Hundred Seven y-seven 



The American battle losses of the war were 50,000 killed and 200,000 wounded. 
They are heavy when counted in terms of lives and suffering, but light compared 
with the enourmous price paid by the nations at whose side we fought. 

WOUNDED, PRISONERS AND MISSING 

For every man who was killed in battle, six others were wounded, taken 
prisoner, or reported missing. The number who died of wounds was only 7 per 
cent as large as the number who were wounded. The hospital records show that 
about 85 per cent of the men sent to hospitals on account of injuries have been re- 
turned to duty. About half the wounded were reported as slightly wounded and 
main- of them would not have been recorded as casualties in previous wars. Except 
for 373 who died, all the prisoners shown in the table have now been returned. 

Battle Casualties in the American Expeditionary Forces. 

Killed in action 35 500 

Died of wounds 14,720 

Total dead . 50.2X0 

Wounded severely 90,830 

Wounded slightly 80,480 

Wounded, degree undetermined 34,380 

Total wounded 205,690 

Missing in action (August 1. 1010) ' 40 

Taken prisoner 4.4SO 

(Ira ml total 200,400 

The number of nun reported as missing has been steadily reduced from a total 
of 78,000 to the figure 40 shown in the table. This reduction has gone no without 
clearing any case as dead except on evidence establishing the fact of death. The 
total number of cases cleared as presumed dead will be about 1,550. 

HEALTH AND CASUALTIES 

Of every 10(1 American soldiers and sailors, who served in the war with Ger- 
main, two were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. 

The total battle deaths of all nations in this war were greater than all the 
deaths in all the wars in the previous 100 years. 

Russian battle deaths were 34 times as heavy as those of the United States, those 
of Germany 32 times as great, the French 28 times, and the British 18 times as large. 

The number of American lives lost was 125,500, of which about 10,000 were in 
the Navy, and the rest in the Army and the marines attached to it. 

In the American Army the casualty rate in the Infantry was higher than in 
any other service, and that for officers was higher than for men. 

For every man killed in battle six were wounded. 

Five out of every six men sent to hospitals on account of wounds were cured 
and returned to duty. 

In the expeditionary forces battle losses were twice as large as deaths from 
disease. 



One Hundred Seventy-eight 



Of every Kill American soldiers and sailors who took part in the war with 
Germany two were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. In the 
Northern Army during the Civil War the number was about 10. Among the other 
great nations in this war, between 20 and H5 in each Kill calk'. I to the colors were 
killed or died. To carry the comparison still further, American losses in this war 
were relativelj one-fifth as large as during the Civil War and less than one-tenth 
as large as in the ranks of the enemy or among the nations associated with us. 

In this war the death rate from disease was lower, and the death rate from 
battle was higher than in any other previous American war. 

Inoculation, clean camps, and safe drinking water, practically eliminated typhoid 
fever among our troops in this war. 

Pneumonia killed core soldiers than were killed in battle. Meningitis was the 
next most serious disease. 

Of each 100 cases of venereal disease recorded in the United States, !lli were 
contracted before entering the army and only 4 afterwards. 

During the entire war available hospital facilities in the American Expedi- 
tionary Forces have been in excess of the needs. 

MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR 

The war cost the United States considerably more than $1,000,000 an hour for 
over two years. 

The direct cost was about $22,000,000,000, or nearly enough to pay the entire 
cost of running the United States Government from 1791 up to the outbreak of the 
European war. 

Our expenditures in this war were sufficient to have carried on the Revolu- 
tionary "War continuoush for more than 1,000 years at the rate of expenditure which 
that war actually involved. 

In addition to this huge expenditure nearly $10,000,000,000 have been loaned by 
the United States to the Allies. 

The Army expenditures have been over $14,000,000,000, or nearly two-thirds of 
our total war costs. 

During the first three months our war expenditures were at the rate of $2,000,000 
per day. During the next year they averaged more than $22,000,000 a day. For the 
final 10 months of the period, from April, 1017. to April, l!ll!l, the daily average was 
over $44,000,000. 

Although the Army expenditures arc less than two-thirds of our total war costs, 
they are nearly equal to the value of all the gold produced in the whole world from 
the discovery of America up to the outbreak of the European war. 

The pay of the Army during the war cost more than the combined salaries of 
all the public-school principles and teachers in the United States for the five years 
from 11)12 to 1916. 

The total war costs of all nations were about $186,000,000,000, of which the Allies 
and the United States spent two-thirds and the enemy one-htird. 

The three nations spending the greatest amounts were Germany, Great Britain, 
and France, in that order. After them come the United States and Austro-Hungary, 
with substantially equal expenditures. 



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The United States spent about one-eighth of the entire cost of the war, anil some- 
thing less than one-fifth of the expenditures of the allied side. 

PERMANENT ASSETS 

As a result of the war efforts large quantities of munitions, supplies, and 
equipment have been secured which will he of value for many years to come. The 
Army now owns some of the finest docks in the world. The sixteen National Army 
cantonments and three of the National Guard camps will he retained permanently 
as training camps. A number of first-class aviation fields and depots and balloon 
schools will he a permanent asset. We have stocks of most articles of clothing suf- 
ficient to last our Army for a number of years. There is a large supply of stand- 
ardized trucks. 

As to rifles and machine guns and their ammunition, light and heavy artillery 
and ammunition, tanks and tractors, of these we have a supply more than sufficient 
to equip an army of a million men and maintain them in active combat for six 
months. These munitions are of the best quality and latest design — Springfield and 
Endfield rifles; Browning machine guns and automatic rifles; field guns and 
howitzers of tried French design. Articles of miscellaneous equipment are available 
in like quantity and quality. 

Thousands of Liberty motors and service planes are immediately available for 
any emergency. Engineer, signal, and medical equipment is on hand to the value 
of millions of dollras. 

All these are lasting assets which we have as a result of war expenditures. 
They give us a most valuable equipment for preparedness in the Military Establish- 
ment. 




Americans bringing machine pun ammunition through the town of Remonville which was the first 
town to be captured by the 89th Division. The view shows some of the barricades thrown up by the 
Germans in an effort to defend the town. 89th Division, Remonville. Ardennes, France, November 2, 
1918. 



One Hundred Eighty 



TEUTONISM TRIMMED TO A "T" 

Truthful thinkers turning their thoughts to these troublous times Irene the 
trubutary terrors to Teutonism. 

To test this theorem the tale-teller tersely tells this tragic tho truthful tale. 

The Teutons turn their thought to treachery, to trickery, to tyranny. 

They transmit these three thought types to transactions thai testify to the truth 
that these triplicate Teutonic traits transcend the Turks topmost tyrannous thought. 

Technically, the Teutons themselves think, tho truthfully told 'tis the Teutonic 
throne that thinks. 

The tenantry, the throne's tools, truckle to the throne thought. 

Tenantry talk takes the throne talk trajecory; the throne threatingly talks: the 
tenantry timidly talks; these twin talks tally. 

The Teutonic throne, through their typographical text, through their Tagablatt, 
tells the tenantry that their Teutonic traditions, their technical training, their 
tremendous trade, their theocratic theories, their trained troops, thoroughly testify 
to thier tenable Teutonic transcendency. 

This tirade, toothsome to themselves, they trumpet to those territorists that the 
Teutons tabu, though to the transatlantic territory they temper their threatening 
tone. 

The transmarine territory's transactions tantalized the Teutonic throne; there- 
fore, to tame these taunting Tommies, the Teutons traversed the thrifty tract 'twixt 
the two terriories. 

There their troops thronged the terraced towns; they trampled the tillage; 
they tore to tatters the tenaments, throwing the tenants to the tempest; they 
torpedoed the temples, turning tablatures to tinder; .they terrified the toddling tots.; . 
they trailed the traditional Tnphet through the thoroughfares. 

The Teutons' t\ ran ical treatment, terminated the tattered territory's tolerance; 
that the Teutons terms timidity. 

They tack led the tramping troops; their terrific thrusts thwarted the Teutons' 
trespassing till the territories, tolerant till then, took to themselves the task to turn 
'the tyrannous tide. 

Together toiled the transmarine, the transcontinental, the transmontance, the 
transatlantic territories; together they took their turn trumping the Teutonic trick. 

Though trickery treaties tempted the Tzar's territories to turn their thoughts to 
themselves, the ties tightened that tied the trustworthy territories together. 

They taxed their treasures; they tested their thrift; they trained troops to 
trigger tactics; they toughened them to trench terrors; they taught them to trail 
their titanic tanks through their tangled terrain. 

Those thoroughly tested they tutored to tower the thunderclouds; to trace the 
terra topography; to tackle the Taubes; to torpedo their targets through the treetops. 

Thousands tendered their time, their talents, themselves, to tend tattered troops, 
to treat torn tissues. 

Then transports tripling the tonnage, took these thousand times thousand to the 
trenches to test the Teuton's trumpeted transcendency. 

There they'll tarry till the Teutonic throne tumbles. 

Trust these tireless thoroughbreds; trust their traditional tenor, their true 
trend, their typical tact, their tested tenacity. 

Trust them to transform Teutonic thought; to turn turmoil to tranquility; to 
trammel treaty trickery; to thwart the treacherous threatenings to Teutonize this 
terrestial. , 

Thoroughly trust them to terminate Teutonism's tiniest trace. They'll taint- 
lessly, totally triumph. 

(This remarkable document is the work of Mr. Charles Dutton, of Montclair, N. J., at the age of 81.) 



One Hundred Eighty-one 




Celebration of armistice by Co. A. 343 Rec. Inf.. 8flth Division at church steps which they reached 
at 11 a. m. November 11. 1918. Stenay Meuse, France. November 11, 1918. 




Logs arriving by ox-cart from adjoining woods. Co. C. 1104 ^ngnieers. Holspatz, France, August 10. 1918 



One Hundred Eighty-two 



Bmm Jhttrrualimtal (Unmyarismts 



THE DECLABATION OF WAR 



♦Treaty -March 3, 1918. 



tTreaty March 0. 1918. 



MEN IN ARMS (The Principal Countries). 





Allied and Associated Nations 


War declared 

by Central 

Powers 


War dtelared 
a^anist Cen- 
tral Powers. 


Duratii 


n of wai 






Yrs. 


Mos. 


Days 


1. 

2 
3." 
4. 

6. 

7, 


Serbia.. 

Russia*.. 

France 

Belgium 

Great Britani... 

Montenegro... 

•Japan 


July 28, 1914 
Any. 1,1914 
Aug, 3, 1914 
Aug. 4, 1914 

Nov. 23, 1914 

Aug. 9,1914 
Aim. .''7, 1914 
Mar. 9, 191(5 


Aug. 9.1911 
Nov. 3, 11114 
Aug. 3, 1914 
Apr. 7, 1914 
Aug 4,1914 
Aug. 6,1914 
Aug. 23,1914 
Nov. 23, 1914 
May 23. 1915 .... 
June (i, 1915 
Aug. 27, 1916 
Nov. 23. 1916 
Apr. (1,1917 
Apr. 7. 1917 
Apr. 7, 1917 
July 22. 1917 
Aug. 4.1917 
Aug. 14, 1917 
Oct. 26, 1917 
Apr. 21. 1918 


4 
3 
4 
4 

4 
4 
4 
3 
3 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 


3 
7 
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3 
3 
3 
2 

il 

5 

5 

6 

11 

t 
i 
7 
3 

3 

o 

6 
6 
3 
3 


14 
3 
8 

7 

7 

5 

19 

19 

19 

4 

1(1 

18 

5 

4 

4 

20 

8 

28 

16 

21 


8. 

9 


Italy 


111 


San Marino.... 




11. 
13 


Roumaniat 

Greece 


Aug. 29,1916 


13. 
14. 
15 


United States 

Panama 

Cuba 




16. 

17. 
18. 

19 


Siani 

Liberia 

China 

Brazil 


20. 


Guatemala 




?,1 


Nicaragua..... 




May 6,1918 
July 12.1918 




00 


Haiti 




30 
23 


23. 


Honduras 




July 19, 1918 





United States 3,764,700 

Great Britain ... 7,5(1(1.(100 

France 6,000,000 

Italy 5,000,000 

Russia ...14,000,000 

Belgium 350,000 

Houmania 60(1,(1(10 



Servia 

Germany 

Austria-Hungary 

Turkey 

Bulgaria 



3(10.1(00 
11.000,000 

7,500,000 

. 1,500,000 

. 1,000.00(1 



Total 58.514,700 



THE BLOODIEST WAR 

The war was undoubtedly the bloodiest which has ever been fought. One pos- 
sihle competitor might be the Crimean War, in which the casualty rate per Kill men 
was equally heavy. The British forces in the Crimean War lost 22 of every 100 
men, the French 31, the Turkish 27, and the Russian 43. More than four-fifths of 
the losses were, however, deaths from disease, while in the recent war with Ger- 
many disease deaths were inconsiderable as compared with battle deaths. The 
forces engaged in the Crimean War were, moreover, much smaller. 



Battle Deaths in Armies Engaged in Present War, 1914-1918 



llussia ... 
Germany 



1,700,000 
1,600,000 



One Hundred Eighty-three 



France 1,385,300 

Great Britain 900,000 

Austria 800,000 

Italy 304.000 

Turkey 250,000 

Serbia and Montenegro 125,000 

Belgium 102,000 

Roumania 100,(10(1 

Bulgaria loo.ooo 

United States 50,300 

Greece 7.000 

Portugal 2.001) 

Total 7485,600 

The total battle deaths in the recent war were greater than all the deaths in 
all wars for more than 100 years previous. From 1793 to 1014 total deaths in war 
may safely he estimated at something about 6,000,000. Battle deaths alone from 1014 
to 1918 totaled about 7,500,000. As the final records are not yet wholly complete, 
these figures are approximate in some cases. Only deaths resulting directly from 
action are included. The total deaths from all causes is very much larger, as some 
of the armies last more heavily from disease and privation than from battle. 

The table shows that Russia had the heaviest losses, in spite of the fact that 
she withdrew from the war after the fall of 1017. American losses are third from 
the bottom of the list. German losses were thirty-two times as great as the losses 
of the United States, the French twenty-times, and the British eighteen times as 
large. 

That American losses were not more severe is due to the fact that our armies 
were only in heavy fighting for 200 days. The heaviest losses were in the Meuse- 
Argonne drive from the last week of September until Xovmher 11. The weekly 
deaths during a part of that period were around the 6,000 mark. 

ESTIMATED TOTAL WAR EXPENDITURES OF PRINCIPAL NATIONS. 
WORLD WAP. FIGURES 

Allies and United States. 

Great Britain and Dominions $ 38,000.000,000 

France 26,000,000,000 

United States 22,000,000,000 

Russia 18,000.000.000 

Italy 13,000,000,000 

Belgium, Roumania, Portugal, Jugo-Slavia 5,000,000,000 

Japan and Greece 1,000,000,000 

Total 8123,000,000,000 

Teutonic Allies 

Germany , $ 39,000,000,000 

Austria-Hungray 21,000.000,000 

Turkey and Bulgaria 3,000,000,000 

Total $ 63,000,000,000 



Grand Total $180,000,000,000 



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RATIONAL STRENGTH OF ALLIED AND TEUTONIC FORCES ON THE WEST- 
ERN FRONT AT THE TIME OF THE ARMISTICE 

Allied, 6,427,100. German, 3.562,180. 

There were 20,348 guns organized in batteries at the date of the armistice. 
Rattle airplanes in Allied and Teutonic armies at the date of the armistice: 
Allied army, 0,784. Teutonic army, 3,352. 

PRODUCTION OF ARTICLES OR ORDINANCE RY GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE 
AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE NINETEEN MONTHS OF AMER- 
ICAN PARTICIPATION FROM APRIL (i, 1017, TO NOVEMBER 11, 1918. 



Rifles- 
Great Britain 1,963,514 

France 1,300,038 

United States 2,505,010 

Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles — 

Great Britain 170,127 

France 223.317 

United States 181,002 

Rifle and Machine Gun Ammunition — 
Great Britain .3,428,195,000 



France 

United States 


2,959,285,000 

2,870,140,000 


Smokeless Powder, Pounds- 
Great Britain 


201,700,000 


France 


342, 155,000 


United States 


032,504,000 


High Explosies, Pounds — 
Great Britain 

France 


705,110,000 

702 004 000 


United States 


- 375,000,11(111 



GROSS TONS OF MERCHANT SHIPPING LOST THROUGH ACTS OF WAR 



Great Britain 7,757,000 

Norway 1,177,000 

France 880,0<l() 

Italy 840,(llt(l 

United States 305,000 

Greece 346,000 

Denmark 241,000 

Holland 203,000 

Sweden 201,000 

Germany 187,000 



Russia 

Spain 

Japan 
Portugal 
Belgium 
Brazil ... 
Austria . 
Others ... 



183,000 

108,000 
120,00(1 
03,000 
84,000 
25,000 
15,000 
16.000 



Total 12,046,000 



ESTIMATED PRE-WAR NATIONAL WEALTH, PRE-WAR NATIONAL DEBTS, AND 
POST-WAR NATIONAL DEBTS OF FIVE NATIONS 



United Kingdom — 

Pre-war national wealth... .$85,000,000,000 

Pre-war national debt 3,500,000.000 

Post-war national debt 34,000,000.00(1 

France — 

Pre-war national wealth.. ..$67,000,000,000 

Pre-war national debt 6,500,000,000 

Post-war national debt 27.000,000,000 

Germany — 

Pre-war national wealth. .s78.000.00O.000 



Pre-war national debt 1,500,000,000 

Post-war national debt 30,000,000,000 

Italy- 
Pre-war national wealth. .... $16,000,000,000 

Pre-war national debt 2,900.000,000 

Post-war national debt 11,000,000,000 

United States- 
Pre-war national wealth. $220,000,000,000 

Pre-war national debt 1,300,000,000 

Post-war national debt... 34,00(1.000,000 



One Hundred Eighty-five 



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1914 

June 28— Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife 

assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. 
July 28— Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. 
Aus.'. 1 — Germany declares war on Russia. 
Aug. 3 — Germany declares war on France. 
Aug. 4— State of war between Great Britain and 

Germany is declared ; Germany declares war on 

Belgium. 
Aug. 8 — Germans take Liege. 
Aug. 20 — German forces enter Brussels. 
Aug. 23 — Japan declares war on Germany. 
Aug. 26 — Large part of Louvain destrayed by Ger- 
mans. 
Aug. 28— British win naval battle near Helgoland. 
Aim. 29— Germans inflict heavy defeat on Russians 

at Allenstein ; Germans occupy Amiens. 
Sept. 1— Germans win victory at Tannenberg. East 

Prussia ; cross the Marne in France. 
Sept. 2 — Lemberg captured by Russians ; seat of 

French government transferred from Paris to 

Bordeaux. 
Sept. 5— England. France and Russia sign compact 

not to conclude peace separately. 
Sept. 6— Allies win battle of Marne. 
Sept. 7— Germans retreat from the Marne; capture 

Maubeuge. 
Sept. 7-10 — Germans retreat to the Aisne. 
Sept. 14 — Battle of Aisne begins ; pursuit by allies 

halted. 
Sept. 15— First battle of Soissons fought. 
Sept. IS — Germans bombard Rheims ; cathedral is 

damaged. 
Sept. 19— Battle of Aisne develops into continuous 

trench fighting. 
Sept 20 Russians capture Jaroslau and start siege 

of Przemysl. 
Sept. 22— British cruisers Cressy. Aboukir and 

Hogue torpedoed and sunk in the North sea. 
Oct. 9-10— Germans capture Antwerp. 
Oct. 12 — Germans capture Ghent. 
Oct. 20— Fighting along Yser river begins. 
Oct. 29 — Turkey begins war on Russia. 
Nov. 1— British cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth 

sunk off coast of Chile. 
Nov. 7— Tsingato captured by Japanese. 
Nov. 9 — German cruiser Emden destroyed. 
Dec. S — German cruisers sunk near Falkland islands 

by British fleet. 
Dec. 9 French government officials return to Paris. 
Dec. 14 — Belgrade recaptured by Serbians. 
Dec. 17 — Britain formally assumes a protectorate 

over Egypt. 
Dec. 25— Italy occupies Avlona, Albana. 



1915 

Jan. 1 — British battle ship Formidable sunk. 

Jan. 11 — Heavy fighting northeast of Siossons. 

Jan. 24— British win naval battle in North sea, 
sinking the German cruiser Bluecher and damag- 
ing two other cruisers. 

Feb. 11 — Germans evacuate Lodz. 

Felt. 12 -Germans drive Russians from positions in 
East Prussia, taking 2*5.000 prisoners. 

Felt, lit — British and French fleets bombard Darda- 
nelles forts. 

March 1 — Premier Asquith announces blockade by 
allies of all German, Austrian and Turkish ports. 

March 10— Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. 

March 14- German cruiser Dresden sunk. 

Ma rch 1 8 British battle ships Irresistible and 
Ocean and French battle ship Bouvit sunk in 
Dardanelles strait. 

March 22 Fortress of Przemysl surrenders to Rus- 
sians. 

April 2;; Germans force way across Ypres canal at 
Steenst raate and Het Sas. 

May 2 — Austro- Hungarian and German troops re- 
pulse Russians along the entire front of Malatow, 
Gorlice, Gromik and north of these places in West 
Galicia. 

May 7 — Lusitaina torpedoed and sunk by German 
submarine. 

May 23 — Italy formally declares war on Austria. 

June 3 — Przemysl recaptured by Germans and Aus- 
t rians. 

June 22 Germans and Austrians capture Lemberg. 

July 3 Tolmino falls into hands of Italians. 

July 20 Warsaw evacuated; Lublin captured by 
Austrians. 

Aug, 2 Germans occupy Mitau. 

Aug. 3-9— Battle of Hooge. 

Aug. I Germans occupy Warsaw. 

Aug. .". Ivangorod taken by Germans. 

Aug. 6 — British land at Suvla bay, Gallipolli. 

Aug. 17 Germans capture Kovno. 

Aug. 10-2H < It- r mans take Novo Georgievsk. 

Aug. 26 Germans take Brest-Litovsk. 

Sept. 2— Germans capture Grodno. 

Sept. 5 — Grand Duke Nicholas sent to the Caucasus. 

Sept. 8- Russians stop Germans at Tarnopol. 

Sept. 10 — Germans capture Vilna. 

Sept. 20 — Austrians and Germans begin drive on 
Serbia. 

Sept. 25-30--Battle of the Champagne. 

Oct. 9-10 Austro-Germans capture Belgrade. 

Oct. 12 Edith Cavell executed by Germans. 

Oct. 13 — Bulgaria declares war on Serbia. 

Oct. 22 — Bulgarians occupy Uskub. 

Nov. 7 -Italian liner Ancona sunk. 

Nov. 22 British victory near Bagdad. 



One Hundred Eighty-six 



Nov. 30 — Bulgarians take Prizrend. 

Dec. 1 — British retreat from near Bagdad. 

Dec. 8-0— Allies defeated in Macedonia. 

Dec. 15 — Sir John Douglas Haig succeeds Sir John 

French. 
Dec. 27-30— Heavy Russian offensive in Galicia and 

Bessarabia. 
Dec. 30 — -Liner Persia sunk in Mediterranean. 

1916 

Jan. 6— Russians capture Czartorysk, 

Jan. S — British troops at Kut-el-Amara surrounded. 

Jan. 9 — British evacuate Gallipoli peninsula. 

Jan. 10 — -Austrians capture Mount Loveen in Monte- 
negro ; predreadnaught King Edward VII sunk. 

Jan. 13— Cetinje, capital of Montenegro, captured 
by Austrians. 

Jan. 23 — Scutari, capital of Albania, captured by 
Austrians. 

Feb. 15- Erzerum captured by the Russians. 

Feb. 21 — Germans under crown prince begin attack 
on Verdun defenses. 

Feb. 26 — Germans capture Foi't Douaumont ; French 
transport La Provence sunk. 

March 2 — Bitlis captured by Russians. 

March 16 — Admiral von Tirpitz resigns. 

March 24 — Sussex torpedoed and sunk. 

April 5-7— Battle of St. Eloi. 

April 17 — Trebizond captured by Russians. 

April 18- — President Wilson sends final note to Ger- 
many. 

April 19— President Wilson explains diplomatic situ- 
ation in speech before congress in joint session. 

April 24 — Insurrection in Dublin. 

April 29 — British force at Kut-el-Amara surrenders 
to the Turks. 

April 30 — Irish insurrection put down. 

May 3 — Several leaders of Irish revolt executed. 

May 15- Austrians begin offensive against Italians 
in Trentino. 

May 31— Great naval battle off Danish coast. 

June 3— Germans assail British at Ypres ; Russians 
under General Brussiloff begin successful offen- 
sive. 

June 5— Lord Kitchener lost with cruiser Hamp- 
shire. 

June 6 — Italians stop enemy in Trentino. 

June 11— Russians capture Dubno. 

June IS— Russians capture Czernowitz. 

June 25 — General Brussiloff's army completes pos- 
session of Bukowina. 

July 1— Battle of Somme begins. 

July 25 — Erzingan captured by the Russians. 

July 26 — Pozieres taken by the British. 

July 27 — British take Delville wood; Serbs begin at- 
tack on Bulgars in Macedonia. 

Aug. 2— French take Fleury. 

Aug. 3 — Sir Roger Casement executed for treason. 

Aug. 5— British win victory north of Pozieres. 

Aug. — Italians take Goritz by assault. 

Aug. 15 — Russians capture Jablonitza. 

Aug. IS — Serbs capture Fiorina from Bulgars. 

Aug. 24 — French take Maurepas. 

Aug. 27 — Italy declares war against Germany. 

Aug. 28- — Koumania declares war against Austria- 
Hungary. 



Aug. 30 — Roumanians take Kronstadt in Transyl- 
vania ; Bulgars seize Drama. 

Sept. 2 — Roumanians take Orsova and Hermann- 
stadt. 

Sept. 3 — Allies take Guillemont and Clery. 

Sept. 7 — Germans capture Tutrakan. 

Sept. — French recapture Fort Douaumont. 

Sept. 10 — German-Bulgar forces take Silistria 

Sept. 15— British take Flers, Martinpuich and 
Courcelette ; French reach outskirts of Rancourt. 

Sept. 17 — French capture Vermandovillers and 
Berny. 

Sept. 25— British take Morval and Les Boeufs. 

Sept. 26— French and British take Combles ; British 
take Thirepval and Guedecourt. 

Sept. 28 — Venizelos proclaims provisional govern- 
ment in Greece ; to aid allies. 

Sept. 30 — Germans defeat Roumanians at Hermann- 
stadt. 

Oct. 8 — Germans recapture Kronstadt from Rou- 
manians. 

Oct. 11 — Germans defeat Roumanians in Alt valley 
and begin invasion of Roumania. 

Oct. 13 — Italians win victory on Carso plateau. 

Oct. 23 — Germans capture Constanza. 

Oct. 24 — Germans take Predeal. 

Oct. 25 — Germans capture Vulcan pass. 

Nov. 3— French reoccupy Fort Vaux. 

Nov. 12— French take all of Saillisel. 

Nov. 13 — British win battle of Ancre. 

Nov. 19 — Monastir taken by Serbs, French and 
Italians. 

Nov. 24 — Germans capture Orsova and Turnu- 
Severin. 

Nov. 25 — The Venizelist provisional government in 
Greece declares war on Germany. 

Nov. 28— Seat of Roumanian government removed 
from Bukharest to Jassy. 

Dec. 3 — Battle of Argesu won by Germans. 

Dec. 5 — British cabinet resigns. 

Dec. 6 — Bukharest occupied by German forces. 

Dec. 10 — New British cabinet formed with David 
Lloyd George at its head. 

Dec. 11— Italian battle ship Regina Margherita sunk. 

Dec. 12 — Germany proposes peace negotiations. 

Dec. 15 — French recapture Vacherauville, Louvemont 
and Fort Hardaumont. 

Dec. 28— President Wilson sends note to belligerent 
nations asking them to make known their peace 
terms and to neutral nations suggesting that they 
support Amreica's action. 

Dec. 27 — Rimnik Sarat taken by Germans. 

Dec. 28 — Germany replies to President Wilson say- 
ing a direct exchange of views would be best way 
to bring about peace ; gives no terms. 

Dec. 29 — Scandinavian countries express sympathy 
with President Wilson's suggestions. 

Dec. 30— Allies make joint reply to German's peace 
proposal rejecting it. 

1917 

Jan. 5 — Germans capture Braila. 

Jan. 7 — Russians take offensive along Sereth river. 

Jan. 8 — Germans captu re Focsani fortress. 

Jan. 9 — British battle ship Cornwallis sunk. 

Jan. 10 — Allies make joint reply to President Wil- 



One Hundred Eighty-seven 



son and give then* peace terms. 
Jan. 11 — German government issues note comment- 
ing: on entente's reply of Dec. 30. 
Jan. 17 — British advance on both sides of Ancre 

creek. 
Jan. 22 — President Wilson addresses United States 
senate on subject of world peace and the establish- 
ment of a league of nations. 
Jan. 23— Battle between British and German 

destroyers in North Sea. 
Jan. 31 — Ambassador Count von Bernstortf hands 
note to Secretary Lansing in Washington, an- 
nouncing the inauguration by Germany of an 
unrestricted submarine warfare on Feb. 1 ; Ger- 
many proclaims boundaries of blockade zones. 
Feb. 1 — Germany begins unrestricted submarine 

warfare. 
Feb. 3— American steamer Housatonic torpedoed and 

sunk. 
Feb. 3 — President Wilson orders that Ambassador 
Count von Bernstorff be handed his passports, 
directs the withdrawal of Ambassador James W. 
Gerard and all American consuls from Germany. 
p eD> - — United States senate indorses president's 
action in breaking with Germany ; Britiish cap- 
ture Grandcourt ; German ships interned in Amer- 
ican ports found crippled by crews. 
Feb. 8 — Germany detains Ambassador Gerard in 
Berlin ; liner California torpedoed and sunk with 
loss of forty-one lives. 
Feb. 9— European neutrals decline to break with 

Germany; British take Sailly-Saillisel. 
Feb. 13 — Ambassador Bernstorff sails for Germany 

via Halifax and Norway. 
Feb. 15— Germans under crown prince take a mile 
and a half of French trenches between Reims and 
Verdun. 
Feb. 17— British troops capture enemy positions 
along a front of two miles on both sides of the 
Ancre. 
Feb. 25— "Hindenburg retreat" from Somme sector 
in full progress; British win at Sannaiyat on the 
Tigris ; British take Serre and Butte de Waren- 
court. 
Feb. 26— President Wilson appears before congress 
and asks auhtority to supply merchant ships with 
defensive arms and to employ other methods to 
protect American ships and citiizens ; British cap- 
ture Kut-el-Amara. 
Feb. 27— British take Gonnecourt. 
March 1— House grants president power to arm 

merchant ships. 
March 4- -Filibuster by Senator La Follette and 
others prevents passage by senate of bill giving 
president power to arm ships : president rebukes 
senate for its lack of power to legislate. 
March 5- President Wilson inaugurated for his 

second term- 
March 6-British invade Palestine and capture 
Hebron; United States Supreme court decides 
Appam case in favor of owners. 
March 8- United States senate adopts cloture rule; 

Count Ferdniand von Zeppelin dies. 
March 9- President Wilson calls a special session 
of congress for April 16 ; # issues orders for the 
arming of American merchant ships. 



March 10 — Belgian relief steamer Storstad tor- 
pedoed. 
March 11 — Successful revolution in Russia; Britiish 
capture Bagdad ; Ambassador Gerard reaches Ha- 
vana. 
March 12 — French capture Hill 185 in Champagne; 
state department in Washington gives formal 
notice of arming of American ships ; American 
steamer Alogonquin sunk without warning by 
German submarine ; China breaks relations with 
Germany. 
March 13 — Russians take Kermanshah in Persia. 
March 15 — Extra session of United States senate 
ends ; Czar Nicholas II. of Russia abdicates throne 
for himself and his son. 
March 16— American steamer Vigilancia torpedoed 

with loss of fifteen lives. 
March 17— British take Bapaume ; French take 

Roye ; American ship City of Memphiis sunk. 
March 18- -British and French take Peronne, 
Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon ; make ten mile gain 
on seventy mile front ; Germans destroy every- 
thing in abandoned territory ; American ship 
Illinois sunk by submarine. 
March 19 — American Oil ship Healdton torpedoed 
with loss of a score of lives ; French battle ship 
Dan ton torpedoed with loss of 296 men ; British 
and French continue advance ; Germans say re- 
treat is for strategic purposes. 
March 21 — President Wilson calls extra session of 
congress to begin April 2 instead of April 16 ; 
"state of war" admitted to exist. 
March 22— America recognizes new government in 

Russia. 
March 24 -Washington announces withdrawal of 
Minister Brand Whitlock and American relief 
workers from Belgium ; constitutional party in 
Russia votes for republican form of government ; 
Germany extends barred zone to Russian artic 
waters. 
March 25 — President Wilson calls part of national 
guard in the east into the national service for 
policing purposes. 
March 26 — British defeat large force of Turks at 
Gaza, Palestine; President Wilson calls into fed- 
eral service 20,000 guardsmen in eighteen central 
states. 
March 30 — President Wilson and cabinet decide that 
war with Germany is the only honorable recourse 
left to the United States. 
April 1 — The Aztec, an armed American steamer, 
sunk by submarine ; Russian armies invade Tur- 
key from Persia. 
April 2 — Speciai session of American congress 
opens ; president in address asks that existence 
of a state of war with Germany be declared. 
April 4--Senate passes war resolution; Germans at- 
tack Russians on Stokhod river ; American steam- 
ship Missourian sunk in Mediterranean. 
April 5— British and Russian armies join in Meso- 
potamia. 
April 6- House passes war resolution ; president 
signs resolution and issues war proclamation; all 
American naval forces mobilized; German vessels 



One Hundred Eighty-eight 



in American ports seized : Germans blow up their 
auxiliary cruiser Cormoran at Guam. 
April 7 — Cuba and Panama declare war on Ger- 
many. 

April 8 — Austria- Hungary announces break in re- 
lations with the United States. 
April 9 — Canadians take Vimy ridge in great 

British offensive north and south of Arras. 
April 10 — Brazil breaks off relations with Germany. 
April 15 — Great French offensive between Soissons 

and Reims begins. 
April IS— Germans driven out of six villages he- 

tween Soissons and Reims. 
April 21— Turkey breaks off relations with the 
United States ; Balfour mission arrives in the 
United States. 
April 22- British mission arrives in Washington : 

"United States day" celebrated in Paris. 
April 23 — British begin new attack on Arras front ; 

British capture Samara. 
April 2-1 — Joffre- Viviani French mission arrives in 

America. 
April 25 — Joffre-Viviani mission given ovation in 
Washington : president appoints Elihu Root head 
of mission to visit Russia. 
April 26 — Vacuum, American steamship, torpedoed. 

thirty lives lost. 
April 28 — Senate and house pass army draft bill ; 
Secretary McAdoo announces that bond issue will 
be called "liberty loan of 1917." 
May 3— Canadians take Fresnoy ; United States be- 
gins making large loans to allies ; French mission 
received on floor of house. 
May 4 American destroyers arrive in British 
waters and begin patrol work : British transport 
Transylvania sunk with loss of 413 lives. 
May 5- — Great Britain joins French in asking that 
American troops be sent to France at once; A. 
J. Balfour and members of British mission re- 
ceived in house of representatives : Marshal Joffre 
speaks in Chicago. 
May 7 — War department in Washington announces 
that nine regiments of engineers are to be orga- 
nized and sent to France. 
May S -Germans regains Fresnoy: A. J. Balfour 

addresses United States senate. 
May 9 -Liberia ends relations with Germany. 
May 17 — First American Red Cross hospital unit 
arrives in England for service with the British in 
France. 
May 18— President Wilson orders the sending of a 
division of regulars to France under Maj.-Gen. J. 
J. Pershing ; announces that he will not sanction 
raising of volunteer troops by Theodore Roosevelt 
for service in Europe ; issues proclamation fixing 
June 5 as date for the registry of men eligible 
for service under draft law ; Italians storm Monte 
Vodice. 
May 19 — President Wilson asks Herbert C. Hoover 
to take charge of food administration in America 
during the war. 
May 21 — Italian war mission arrives in America. 
May 24 — Real- Admiral W. S. Sims appointed vice- 
admiral ; plan of raising $100,000,000 for Red 
Cross announced by Henry P. Davison. 



May 25— German aircraft raid England, killing 
seventy-six persons and inuring 174 ; President 
Wilson makes June 18-25 as Red Cross week. 
May 26 — Italians storm second Austrian line on 

Carso plateau. 
June 5 — Military registration day under selective 
draft law in the United States approximately 
10.000.000 men register. 
June 6— Lord Northcliffe appointed to represent 

Britain in America. 
June 7 — British began great offensive at Messines, 
storming Wytschaete ridge and exploding great 
mints. 
June 8 — Gen. Pershing with staff and clerical force 
reaches London ; force of 100 American aviators 
reach France. 
June 10 — British gain more ground around Mes- 
sines in Ypres region. 
June 12 — King Constantine of Greece forced to 

abdicate his throne. 
June 13 — Gen. Pershing lands in France ; German 
airplanes raid London, killing 157 persons and 
wounding 430. 
June 16 — Belgian war mission arrives in United 

States. 
June 26— Venizelos becomes prime minister of 
Greece ; Chairman Davison of Red Cross war 
council announces subscription of $114,000,000 to 
war fund. 
June 27 — American troops arrive in France. 
June 29 — Greece severs relations with Germany and 

her allies. 
June 29— Eighty-seven German ships seized in 

American ports turned over to shipping board. 
July 4 — France celebrates July 4 ; American troops 

parade in Paris. 
July 9 — President Wilson proclaims mobilization of 

national guard. 
July 12 — Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg resigns. 
July 14 — George Michael is becomes German chan- 
cellor. 
July 20— Draft day in the United States. 
July 22— Siam declares war on Germany. 
July 28 — More American troops arrive in France. 
Aug. 6 — Kerensky forms a new cabinet. 
Aug. 7 — Liberia declares war on Germany. 
Aug. 14 — China declares war on Germany and 

Austria-Hungary. 
Aug. 15 — Pope's peace appeal is published ; Cana- 
dians capture Hill 70, dominating Lens. 
Aug. 16— British and French gain on nine mile 
front east and north of Ypres ; British take 
Langemarck. 
Aug. 20 — French attack on both sides of Meuse in 
Verdun region, taking Avocourt wood. Le Mort 
Homme, Corbeaux wood, Cumieres, Talou ridge. 
Hills 240 and 244. Mormont farm and 4.000 
prisoners : fight witnessed by American officers. 
Aug. 21— Canadians take 2,000 yards fo German 

trenches in outskirts of Lens. 
Aug. 24— Italians take Monte Santo : French take 

Hill 304 near Verdun. 
Aug. 27 — General embargo on exports beginning 
Aug. 30 proclaimed by the president ; full aid to 



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Russia pledged by President Wlison ; reply of 
United States to pope's peace note. 

Sept. 4 and 5 — -German airplanes drop bombs on 
American hospital camp in France, killing five 
and wounding ten persons. 

Sept. 5 — Five per cent of national army go to 
training camps. 

Sept. 6— French repulse German attacks at Czerny. 

Sept. 7— American liner Minnehaha sunk. 

Sept. 20 — British advance along Ypres-Menin road 
to a depth of more than a mile and a half. 

Oct. 6 — Extra session of congress ends. 

Oct. 9— British drive Germans from Poelcapelle ; 
mutiny on German fleet made public. 

Oct. 17 United States transport Antilles sunk. 

Oct. 24 — Big Austro-German drive against Italian 
front began ; part of Bainsizza plateau taken. 

Oct. 26— Italians evacuate Bainsizza plateau. 

Oct. 20 — Whole Italian Isonzo line falls : Italians 
retreat to the Tagliamento river. 

Oct. 30 — Germans and Austrians take Udine. 

Nov. 1 — Germans advance southeastward from 
Udine. 

Nov. 2— American steamship Rochester torpedoed 
and sunk ; Italians abandon eastern bank of the 
Tagliamento river. 

Nov. 3— Three Americans Id lied, eleven wounded 
and eleven captured by German trench raiding 
party ; British attack Gaza. 

Nov. 5 — Austro-German forces cross the middle Tag- 
liamento river. 

Nov. 6 — Italians abandon the Tagliamento line. 

Nov. 7 — Austro- Germans reach the Livenza river ; 
British take Gaza. 

Nov. 8— -Austro-German forces cross the Livenza 
river and outflank the Italians. 

Nov. 9— Gen. Armando Diaz made commander-in- 
chief of Italian army in place of Gen. Cadorna : 
Italians make stand on the Piave river allied mili- 
tary council formed. 

Nov. 10 — Italians yield the east Lank of the Piave 
river : Germans make fruitless attacks on Verdun 
positions. 

Nov. 12 — Germans and Austrians advance down the 
Piave to Feltre. 

Nov. 13 — Austrians cross the Piave at Zenson. 

Nov. 14 — Americans ambush German patrol on 
French front. 

Nov. 15 — Italians hold their positions on the Piave 
river. 

Nov. 16 — Italians flood lands near Venice to stop 
advance of enemy. 

Nov. 21 — British under Gen. Byng take Germans by 
surprise in Camluai region, advancing five miles 
and taking thousands of prisoners : German at- 
tacks in Monte Grappa region stopped by Italians. 

Nov. 23 — Battle of Cambria continues. 

Nov. 26 British advance near Jerusalem : French 
and British infancy re-enforcements reach Italian 
lines. 

Nov. 27 — Allied war conference assembles in Paris. 

Dec. 3 — Every German colony is now occupied by 
allied forces. 

Dec. 4 — President Wilson asks congress to declare 
war on Austria-Hungary. 



Dec. 6 — United States destroyer Jacob Jones tor- 
pedoed and sunk. 

Dec. 7 — Congress passes resolution declaring state 
of war to exist between the United States and 
Austria- Hungary. 

Dec. 8 — Government in Portugal overthrown by 
revolution. 

Dec. 9 — Capture of Jerusalem by British under Gen. 
Allenby. 

Dec. 11 — Gen. Allenby formally enters Jerusalem. 

Dec. 15 — Col. E. M. House returns from war mis- 
sion to Europe. 

Dec. 17 — A big Red Cross drive begun in United 
States. 

Dec. 18— Senate agrees to house prohibition amend- 
ment. 

Dec. 20 — Premier David Lloyd George says the al- 
ii- s will fight to a finish. 

Dee. 26 — The LTnited States takes over all railroad 
lines (beginning Dec. 28) ; Secretary of the Treas- 
ury McAdoo appointed director-general. 

Dec. 30 — Germans attack British south of Camluai 
and gain some ground. 

1918 

Jan. 16- Fuel Administrator Garfield orders manu- 
facturing concerns to shut down five days and 
also on Mondays until the end of March to save 
coal. 

Jan. 28 — Secretary Baker explains in detail to 
senate military committee the work of the war 
department in building up army, saying that 
1.500,000 men can go to France in 1918 ; London 
raided by German airplanes ; Russia and Rou- 
mania cut off relations ; Secretary McAdoo asks 
for $500,000,000 government corporation to finance 
war industries. 

Jan. 30 Peace strikes in Germany growi ng more 

serious, 500,000 persons quitting work. 

Feb. 1 -Berlin placed in state of siege on account 
i if strikes. 

April 28-29 — A sector in the vicinity of Breteuil, 
northwesl of Montdidier, was occupied by the 1st 
division. 

May 28 Cantigny was captured by the 1st divi- 
sion. A detachment of our troops, re-enforced by 
French artillery, successfully attacked the enemy 
on a front of about 2.200 yards. We occupied 
Cantigny. captured some 200 prisoners and in- 
flicted severe losses on the enemy. 

June 10— The 2nd division attacked in Bois de 
Belleau. advancing the line 900 yards on a front 
oi one and one-half miles, capturing 300 prison- 
ers, thirty machine guns, four trench mortars and 
stores of small arms, ammunition and equipment. 
Held all of Hill 204 down to the village on the 
northeast slope, thus preventing the enemy from 
concentrating his forces in the northern part of 
Chateau Thierry. 

June 11 — The 2nd division continued its advance 
in the Bois de Belleau. capturing more prisoners 
and machine guns and two 77 milimeter field- 
pieces. Our aviators executed their first bomb- 
ing raid, dropping numerous bombs on the rail- 
way station at Dommary-Barancourt. northwest 



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of Metz. All of our planes returned in safety. 
The artillery of the 2nd division shelled the enemy 
in their areas, preventing: concentration near 
Torcy, Monthiers, Hill 128 and La Gonetrie farm. 
It discovered and dispersed a group of 210 ma- 
chine guns in the wood south of Etrepilly. The 2d 
division captured the last of the German positions 
in the Bois de Belleau. taking fifty prisoners, 
machine guns and trench mortars. 

July IS- French and American troops advanced 
under the cover of a heavy storm on the front 
between Soissons and Chateau Thierry. The 
greatest advance was in the northern part of the 
sector, where a depth of five miles was attained, 
and we reached the heights southwest of Soissons, 
dominating the railroad and highways. 

July 24- The advance of the Franco- American 
forces contniued and in the evening the line ran 
east of Buzancy to Tigny, to Hartennes. Grand 
Rozoy, Ouichy-le-Chateau Armentieres. Coincy. 
Courpoil, and then joined the old line at Jaul- 
gonne. West of Reims. Marfaux was retaken and 
the line lan from Aubilly, through Mezy, and 
joined the old line at Coulommes. 

July 25— The line ran from the Ourcq to the Maine. 
where the allied troops advanced six kilometers in 
the center and three to four kilometers on the 
flanks. The line in the evening ran from Armen- 
tieres to Bruyeres, the eastern edge of the Bois 
de la Tournelle, the eastern edge of Beuvardes. 
the eastern edge of La Charnel. the crossroads at 
Gi-cs Chene. La Boulangere. the northern edge of 
Treloup. Chassins. 

July 26 The line ran: Nanteuil. Notre Dame, Hill 
123, Hill IIS. La Misere. Hill 100, southwestern 
part of Bois de Tounelle, Hill 111, Le Charnel. 
Hard fighting continued all day and the French 
and Americans steadily advanced on Fere. 

July 27 — The 42nd division tried to cross the 
Ourcq.. but was driven back by heavy artillery 
fire. 

July 28 The 12nd division renewed the assault, 
crossed the rived and after vigorous fighting took 
Seringes-et-Nesles, Nesles and Sergy. The 28th 
division held the line about one kilometer north 
of the Ourcq. During the day slow progress was 
made, the enemy slowly falling back after bitter 
rear guard action. 

July 29 — Franco- American troops advanced three 
kilometers from Oulchy to Villers Agron and 
Bougneux, Saponay, Seringes, Nesles and Clerges 
were included within our lines. 

July 30 — Our pressure continued on the right bank 
of the Ourcq. The railroad station at Fere and 
Cayenne farm remained in our posession. We 
lost Seringes-et- Nesles, but re-occupied Sergy, 
Hill 312 and the woods eight kilometers north of 
Roncheres. 

July 31 — The 28 th division retook Seringes-et 
Nesles. The 32nd division attacked in Crimpettes 
woods with success ; the woods were taken, and 
troops advanced to Cierges. German counterat- 
tacks were brilliantly repulsed with the bayonet, 
and an immense amount of material and equip- 
ment was taken from the enemy. 



Aug. 3 — After continuous fighting late in the even- 
ing Soissons was taken, and a line extending 
along the Vesle to between Braisne and Bazoches 
was being consolidated. South of the Aisne our 
troops drove back the enemy rear guard. Acting 
with the 1th division, the 32nd division reached a 
line from Ville Savoye to a point just north of 
St. Gilles. 

Aug. 4 — A large enemy patrol attacked in the vi- 
cinity of Coulees, but was driven off by a combat 
group of the 5th division, which had been re-en- 
forced. Our troops were very active in patrolling, 
having sent out over seven reconnoissance, 
combat and ambush patrols. The 32nd division 
took Fismes. In an eight-day battle this division 
forced the passage of the Ourcq, took prisoners 
from six enemy divisions, met. routed and deci- 
mated a crack division of the Prussian guards, a 
Balvarian division and one other enemy division, 
and drove the enemy line back for sixteen kilo- 
meters. 

Aug. 6— The 2sth division launched an attack the 
objective of w-hich was the north bank of the 
Vesle. The attack was met by exceedingly heavy 
machine gun and artillery fire. On the right our 
troops succeeded in crossing the river and ad- 
vancing to the highway which runs from Reims 
ii> Soissons. On the left the advance was held 
up by the enemy's fire. 

Aug. ', — The units on the left advanced across the 
river and occupied the railroad lines on the north 
bank. The casualties resulting from this opera- 
tion were considerable. A violent enemy counter- 
attack was completely repulsed and a number of 
prisoners and machine guns were left in our 
hands. 

Aug. 8 — As a result of successful operations on the 
evening of Aug. S, eleven companies of infantry 
and some machine gun attachments of the 28th 
division reached the north bank of the Vesle. 

Aug. 10 — The 2Sth division launched an attack in 
Fismette. A creeping barrage moved ahead of 
them. They made some progress, but were soon 
exposed to flanking fire from both the east and 
the west and were forced to f al 1 back into 
Fismette. The position here was very difficult. 
Flanknig machine gun fire came from both sides 
and heavy casualties were reported. A box bar- 
rage was placed around the town and ammunition 
was sent up. The town was held by one bat- 
talion, with one machine gun platoon, which re- 
ceived orders to hold the position at all costs. 

Aug. 17 — After strong artillery preparation the in- 
fantry of the 5th division captured the village of 
Frapelle and consolidated the lines north of the 
road running into the town from the southeast. 

Aug. 19 — The enemy continued shelling Frapelle 
positions and the artillery of the 5th division re- 
plied actively. 

Aug. 21 — The 5th division repulsed hostile attack 
with heavy loss to the enemy and with no casualt- 
ies to ourselves. The 32nd division, "acting with 
the 10th French army, advanced to and held 
Juvigny. The 77th division cleared the small 



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wood between the Vesle and the railroad west of 
Chateau du Diable. 
Sept. 3 — During the five days prior to Sept. 3 the 
32d division made daily advances through very 
difficult terrain and against violent opposition. It 
captured eleven officers and 920 enlisted men. A 
large amount of ammunition were captured. A 
patrol of the 77th division penetrated to Bazoches. 
Sept. 5 — French and American units advanced in 
the Oise- Reims area as far as Conde. Strong 
patrols of the 77th division were pushed forward 
north of the Vesle and were encountered by ma- 
chine gun resistance. Our casualties were slight. 
The 28th division crossed the Vesle in force and 
pursued the enemy to the north. 
Sept. 6— The artillery of the 28th division directed 
harassing and destructive fire on the Aisne 
bridges, while the enemy harassed the villages in 
our rear areas, using a great number of gas 
shells. 
Sept. 7 — The 28th division repulsed two enemy 
counterattacks. The 77th division drove the enemy 
out of La Cendiere farm and passed the Aisne 
canal. 
Sept. 12 — After four hours' bombardment our troops 
advanced on the south and west flanks of the St. 
Mihiel salient at 5 a. m. By 7:30 a. m. the 
forces operating on the south had reached the 
southern edge of the Bois Juli, the Quart de 
Reserve, and the northern edge of the Bois de 
Mort Mare. By noon they had reached Essey and 
Vieville and the army operating in the difficult 
ground in the west had captured Les Eparges. At 
6 p. m. the troops had reached a point one 
kilometer east of Senzey and had taken St. Remy 
and Combres. During the night the troops on the 
western flank of the salient advanced five miles 
in five hours, reaching Vigneulles by 3 a. m. 
Sept. 14 — There was general advance along the en- 
tire line, and the American army established it- 
self on the following front: Manheulles, Fresnes, 
Pintheville. St. Hilaire, Doncourt, northeast of 
Woel , south end of the Etang de Lachausee, 
Vandieres and across the Moselle at Champey. 
Sept. 17 — American troops advanced along the 

Moselle within 300 yards of Paguy. 
Sept. 18— The 26th division made two raids during 
the night. One against St. Hilaire was without 
result, as the enemy had retired ; the other 
against the Bois de Warville resulted in the cap- 
ture of fifteen prisoners. 
Sept. 19 The 92d division repulsed an attempted 

enemy raid on the St. Die sector. 
Sept. 20— The 92nd division repulsed two enemy 

r*aids in the region of Lesseux. 
Sept. 2*1 The 1st army attacked northw. si of 
Verdun on a front of twenty miles and penetrated 
to an average depth of seven miles. 
Sept. 27— The 107th regiment of the 27th division 
attacked east of Bellicourt and attained its ob- 
jective s. 
Sept. 29 In the Argonne the Americans met with 
furious resistance. Their losses were heavy, and 
they were unable to do more than hold their own. 
Sept. 30- -The 27th and 30th divisions took prison- 
ers north of St. Quentin totaling 210 officers and 



more than 1,200 men. 
Oct. 1 — The 28th division repulsed a hostile coun- 
terattack on the entire divisional front in the 
Aire valley, with very heavy losses to the enemy. 
Oct. 3 — The 2nd division, operating with the 4th 
French army, made an advance of two kilometers, 
reaching Medeah farm in the afternoon. In the 
evening the 2d division advanced about three kilo- 
meters and their line ran from Medeah farm 
southwest along the road to Blanc Mont. They 
captured 1,000 prisoners and casualties were esti- 
mated at 500. 
Oct. 4 — The 1st division attacked on both sides of 
Exermont and made progress in spite of strong 
opposition from the enemy, who resisted with ma- 
chine guns in organized opposition. Approxi- 
mately 300 prisoners were taken and our casu- 
alties were 1,500. 
Oct. 5— The 1st division captured Arietal farm and 
the line was advanced 400 yards beyond. The 6th 
division repulsed a larger enemy raid on Sonder- 
nach. 
Oct. 7 — A brigade of the 82d division advanced 
seven kilometers, occupying Hill 223, north of 
Chatel Chehery ; forty-six prisoners were cap- 
tured, including one officer. Our casualties were 
light. Later the enemy counterattacked and re- 
occupied Hill 223, north of Chatel Chehery. 
Oct. 8— The 59th brigade of the 30th division at- 
tacked at 5 a. m. over a front of 5,000 yards. 
gained all first objectives by 9 a. m. and second 
objectives by noon. Fifty officers, 1,500 men and 
four 101 millimeter guns were taken. 
Oct. 8-9 — The 2d corps advanced about seven miles 
on a front of 4.000 yards and captured about 
2,000 prisoners and thirty guns. 
Oct. 9- In spite of strong resistance the 1st di- 
vision advanced in the sector east of Fleville and 
captured 230 prisoners. The 33d division, operat- 
ing with the 17th French army corps, attacked 
early in the morning north of Consenvoye and 
reached its final objective about 9 a. m. About 
650 prisoners were taken. 
Oct. 10 — The 1st corps reached Cornay-LaBesogne 
ridge and passed Malassise farm, east of Grand 
Hum. The 60th brigade of the 30th division ad- 
\ anced six kilometers, reaching the Selle river, 
river, and held the St. Bemn-St. Souplet-La Haie- 
Menneresse line. Up to the evening of the 9th. 
fifty officers, 1,800 men and thirty-two guns were 
captui ed, 
Oct. 12 The 1th division repulsed two counterat- 
tacks by machine gun fire, with severe loss to the 
enemy. 
Oct. 13 — An attack on Grandpre this morning met 
very heavy machine gun fire and troops of the 2d 
corps were finally forced to retire south of the 
A 1 re. A hostile counter-attack at 8 p. m. south 
ni Landres-et- St. Georges was repulsed. The 81st 
division repulsed an enemy raid in St. Die sector. 
The 77th division took Grandpre. 
Oct. 17 — The 29th division advanced to the summit 
of Bois de la Grande Montagne, east of the 
Meuse. The 42nd division took Cote de Chatillon. 
The 2d batalion of the 76th division reached the 



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northern edge of Bois des Loges, west of Cham- 
pigneulle. In an attack on a 4.000 yard front 
from St. So ip]et to Molain our troops advanced 
3. COO yards against very stiff resistance. All 
counterattacks repulsed. Prisoners taken were 
estimated at 2, £00. Belgians enter Bruges and 
Zrebr ugge and British occupy Ostend, Lille and 
Do ai : King Albert enters Ostend; Americans 
take Cote Chatillon. Erilish and French advance 
rire miles northeas tof Bi hain. 

Oct. 19~The 30th division attacked wi h Ih? British 
a*, dawn and advanced 2 000 ya 'ds. Prison ■> 
captured since the morning of ;he 17th totaled 
forty-four officers and over 1 "tin m n. The 78th 
division pushed its lines forward to Bellejoyeuse 
farm and began to mop up the Bois des I - •■■ es 
Belgian flags fly over every town on the Belgian 
crast ; French occupy and pass beyond Thi -It : 
French drive on Guise; Lille evacuated by th.3 
Germans and entered by the British. 

Cct 21 — In attacks on the Lois des Nappes the 5th 
division met with stubborn rcsis'ance by machine 
ns, supported by artillery and infantry fire. It 
cr.ptured the entire position v. i h 170 prisoners, 
including five officers. An enemy counterattack, 
surrorted by heavy artillery fire, was repulsed 
with heavy losses. The 5th and 3d divisions took 
Hill 297 and Bois des Rappes. Attacking in the 
evi ning, the 89th division occupied the northern 
and eastern edge of the Bois do Bantheville. 

t. 23 T loops of the 3d corns reached the ridge 
no -Ih of the village of Bantheville. taking 171 
p:is:ners. The 29th division captured the ridge 
i f Eois d'Etrayes and Hill 361. 

Oct. 25 - British, French and Italian troops begin 
new offensive on Italian front be'wcen the Bren'a 
and Piave rivers, taking 3 000 p -ison?- s ; Ameri- 
cans capture Hill 360 erst of the Meuss after 
severe fighting ; Preside nt Wilson appeals for a 
democratic congress. 

Oct. 2<i British troops advance sou'h of Valen- 
ciennes ; French pierce the Hunding line; Italians 
gain in attacks on Austrian defenses en Piave 
line; heavy fighting on Monte Grappa regio i 
Turkish offer to surrender reported from Switzer- 
land. 

Oct. 27 The 78th division ente-~d Belle joyeuse 
farm, northeast of Grandpre, and found it u rioc 
cupied. The occupation o^ 'h^ • ig' t of "ay north- 
west of Grandpre was completed. General Lud- 
endorf f resigns as firs' quartermaster general of 
German army ; French -rain live miles on Serre 
front and take ten towns ; Italian forces cross the 
Piave and take 9,000 Aust ians and fifty one 

VIM S. 

Oct. 2S Austria again u"gently as 1 s for peace; 
French continue drive beyond the Oise ; G rman 
administration moves f.om Brussels. 

Oct. 29 Allied forces in Italy capture Conegliano 
five miles from the Tiave and push on along a 
I' i nt of thirty-seven miles ; Rhine Germans in 
wild flight; disruption in Ai;s ria-Hunga ian pro- 
ceeding. 

Oct. 30 — On Oct. 30 pa'rols were active along the 
entire front of the 28th division. The 33d divi- 



sion, in the north of Grandpre. advanced its lines 
and occupied the Bellejoyeuse farm. On Oct 30 
2,000 high explosives and gun shells fell in the 
vicinity of Fresnes. One of the divisional patrols 
captured five prisoners. New German note seeks 
to hasten decision on armistice terms ; Czchs take 
over rule of Prague ; Italians capture Vittorio 
and drive the Austrians back along the Piave 
from the mountains to the sea ; taking of 33,000 
Austrians in drive announced. 

Oct. 31 —Turkey makes full surrender ; Aust rian 
collapse on Italian front ; troops abandon every- 
thing in wild flight to escape ; General Pershing's 
forces occupy Bellejoyeuse farm ; Belgians renew 
attack in direction of Ghent. 

Nov. 1 -The troops of the 1st army captured Clery- 
le-Grand. North of Ancreville they took fifty- 
three additional prisoners and continued their ad- 
vance into the Bois de Bantheville. During the 
right of Nov. 1-2 the I oops of tb ■ 37 h division 
consolidated their positions and effected a cross- 
ing of the River Scheldt, confronted by enemy 
machine gun and rifle fire. The 91st division, 
si prorted by artillery and machine gun fire 
rapidly advanced over six kilometers in spite of 
enemy artillery and machine gun fire. The em my 
was d iven from the west bank of the Scheldt and 
at noon the heights northwest of Audena d? were 
taken. Armistice terms were given to Austria ; 
British get grip on Valenciennes ; allies in 
Belgium take nineteen towns and gain ten miles. 

Nov. 2 — On the evening of Nov. 2 the troops of the 
;s h division drove the enemy from the Bois des 
Logcs and closely followed his retreat. The 92d 
division, in spite of machine gun rcsis'ance, push- 
ed forward and advanced the line three kilo- 
mete: s. 

Nov. 3 — The 91st division, in spite of active ma- 
chine gun resistance, forced its way toward the 
bank of the Scheldt in the vicinity of Eyne. 
Italians capture Trent and Udine ; whole Austrian 
f nut. smashed; German forces east of the M?use 
in full retreat. 

Nov. 4— On Nov. 4 a brigade of the 79th division 
attacked an enemy sector, taking eighty one pris- 
oners and eight machine guns, encountering 
strong resistance and repulsing several counter- 
attacks. Austria makes complete surrender: 
British in advance between the Scheldt and the 
Oise-Sambre canal and with the French co-operat- 
ing take 10,000 prisoners and 200 guns. 

Nov. 5 — On Nov. 5 the troops of the 77th division 
engaged in severe fighting, overcoming strong 
enemy resistance along the entire line. The artil- 
lery was active, firing on the enemy's retreating 
columns. Harassing artillery fire was returned 
by the enemy. Aviation was active on both sides. 
The enemy flew over our front lines and delivered 
machine gun fire on our advancing troops. Two 
enemy planes were brought down. German armies 
on western front retreat everywhere, losing hun- 
dreds of guns and thousands of prisoners ; French 
take Guise and Marie; allied troops on three sides 
of Ghent. 

Nov. C Our trcops of the 1st corps continued 



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their succesful advance, forcing the enemy to re- 
tire. The towns of Flahas, Raucours, Haraucourt 
and Autrecourt were taken and patrols pushed on 
as far as the Meuse. Large quantities of material 
were captured during the advance. Following 
heavy bombardment on the enemy's divisions, the 
troops of the 5th division attacked, rapidly over- 
coming the enemy's resistance, capturing Lionde- 
vant-Dun, Murvaux, Fontaine and Vilosnes-sur- 
Meuse, taking more than 250 prisoners. French 
win on 100-mile front, taking Vervins. Mont- 
cornet and Rethel ; cross the Meuse river ; Ger- 
mans give up Ghent; Germans seeking truce 
reach French lines. 

Nov. 7— The troops of the 2d division cleared the 
west bank of the Meuse of the remaining machine 
guns and snipers in the vicinity of Mouzon. The 
5th division, supported by artillery fire, continued 
its advance despite the enemy's continued resist- 
ance, principally with machine guns. Most of the 
artillery crossed to the east lank of the Meuse. 
following in support of the infantry. Additional 
prisoners were taken, including two officers and 
132 men. Passage of German peace envo-s to 
French headquarters arranged: allied armies drive 
along whole front. 

Nov. 8— The patrols of the 2d division cress d the 
Meuse south of Mouzon. The troops of the 33d 
division, aided by barrage fire, carried out a suc- 
cessful raid on Chateau Aulnois. capturing one 
officer and twenty two men. Strong combat pa- 
trols were sent out from the lines of the 92d 
division, colored. Prisoners were captured and 
casualties inflicted in the enemy. German pleni- 
potentiaries arrive at Marshal Foch's headema t 
ers and are given armistice terms fixed by al- 
lied war council with time limit for acceptance 
fixed for 11 o'clock Monday morning, Nov. 11; 
German socialists demand abdication of Emperor 
William; revolution in Berlin; Bavaria deposes 
king and proclaims a republic. 

Nov. 9— On midnight of Nov. 9 tha patrols of the 
5th division drove back the enemy, inflicting 
many casualties and caoturing six prisoners. The 
troops consolidated and, despite stubborn resist- 
ance, principally from machine guns, drove the 
enemy from Bois du Canol and La Sentinelle and 
captured Brandeville. In these operations forty- 
seven prisoners, 125 macline guns and other ma- 
terial were captured. A strong combat patrol v as 
active along the entire front of the 33d division- 
meeting with heavy machine gun resistance from 
the enemy, and a patrol of one company captured 
-ight prisoners in 'he Eois de Warville. The 
troops of the 79th division advanced in a general 
l y northeasterly direction, with the right flank in 
Bois de Damvillevs. The 42d and units of ths 1st 
seized the heights south of Sedan. Cham- llor 
Prim-.- Maximilian of Germany announces that 
kaiser and crown prince have decided to renounce 
the throne; Deputy Ebert made imperial chan- 
cellor. 
Nov. 10 The 33d division carried out a succ ssful 
raid on Mareheville, occupying th? town and tak- 
ing eighty prisoners, including three officers. 
Strong patrols from >he line enraged in sharp 



fignting. The 3'<th division, operating with the 
34th French army corps, attacked in order to 
force a crossing of the Scheldt. Violent enfilad- 
ing machine gun fire, heavy artillery and the 
flooded condition of the terrain delayed the con- 
struction of bridges and crossings. In the face 
of continuous heavy artillery fire, supported by 
machine guns, the troops advanced about two kilo- 
meters. The 90th division advanced toward Baalon, 
encountering no resistance. The 92d reached Bois 
Frahaut and captured 710 prisoners. Emperor 
William takes refuge in Holland. 
Nov. 11 — The 3d division advanced three kilometers 
east of Breheville. Despite increased resistance 
by machine gun and artillery fire the 5th division 
continued to advance, capturing eighteen prison- 
ers, three large calibre guns, six minenwerfers 
and considerable material. In accordance with 
the terms of the armistice hostilities on the front 
of the American armies ceased at 11 a. m. Ger- 
man envoys sign armistice terms and fighting 
ceases at 11 a. m. all along the line. 
Nov. 12— Addication of Emperor Charles announced 
in Austria; Germany appeals to President Wilson 
to start peace negotiations at once ; new Rouman- 
ian government declares war on Germany. 
Nov. 13 — Bolshevism reported to be spreading in 
various parts of Europe; abdication of various 
German rulers announced ; King Albert enters 
Ghent; allied fleet anchors off Constantinople. 
Nov. 14 — German women appeal for food ; Polish 
troops hold Warsaw ; last of German military 
forces in East Africa surrender ; British land on 
Galiipoli point. 
Nov. 15 — Representatives of associated and allied 
governments begin conferences on peace prelimin- 
aries in Paris ; Germany prepares for calling a 
constituent assembly. 
Nov. 16— Belgians petition King Albert for re- 
forms ; Postmaster- General Burleson takes over 
Atlantic cables. 
Nov. 17— -Third American aimy. one of the armies 
of occupation, enters Montmady ; Premier Clem- 
enceau wants President Wilson to attend peace 
conference ; arrangements made for surrender of 
part of German navy ; King Friedrich III. of 
Saxony abdicates. 
Nov. 18 — President Wilson announces officially that 
he will sail for Europe to take part in the set- 
tlement of the main features of the treaty of 
peace ; Germans fear bolshevism ; German ships 
sail to surrender; allies fight bolsheviki on Dvina 
river ; King George expresses thanks to parlia- 
ment. 
Nov. 19 — American army of occupation carries re- 
lief to many towns ; food supplies sent from the 
United States to northern France, Belgium and 
Austria ; General Petain and French troops enter 
Metz ; King Albert enters Antwerp. 
Nov. 20— American 3d army enters Luxemburg ; 
Ukrainian government overturned; Germans 
make first surrender of twenty submarines at 
Harwich, England. 
Nov. 21- Germany surrenders large part of high 
seas fleet and nineteen more submarines ; Luxem- 



One Hundred Ninety Coi r 



burgers acclaim American troops : Kolchak made 
dictator at Omsk ; British cavalry ride over old 
field of Walterlco. 

Nov. 22 — William G. McAdoo resigns as secretary 
of the treasury and director-general of railroads ; 
the former crown prince of Germany takes refuge 
in Holland ; General Castelnau enters Col mar. 

Nov. 23 — American army of occupation crosses into 
Germany. 

Nov. 24 — More German submarines surrendered to 
the allies for interment; clashes between extrem- 
ists and government group of socialists take place 
in Berlin ; King Albert enters Brussels ; French 
soldiers enter Strassburg. 

Nov. 25- Marshal Foch with General Guillaumat 
and General Gourand enters Strassburg ; bolshevik 
Soviets try to take government from Ebert gov- 
ernment. 

Nov. 26 Allies prepare to make demand upon Hol- 
land fur surrender of the former emperor of Ger- 
many ; General Ludendorff goes to Sweden. 

Nov. 27 — Names of American delegates to peace 
conference announced in Washington. 

Nov. 28— Vienna plans to try men who began the 
war ; Liebknecht group of extremists losing 
ground in Berlin. 

Nov. 29 — Many strikes take place in Germany ; al- 
lies ask Herbert C. Hoover to direct food dis- 
tribution in Europe ; Premier Lloyd George says 
William II. was to blame for the war; Germany 
asks for and gets formal abdication of former 



kaiser ; Japan names delegates to peace confer- 
ence. 

Nov. 30 -German border towns hostile to American 
army of occupation . interment of Field Marshal 
von Mackensen's army ordered by Hungarian gov- 
ernment ; peace conference to be held in Paris 
and Versailles. 

Dec. 1 — German government starts investigation of 
German atrocities in Belgium; American army of 
occupation enters Treves. Germany : Premier 
Clemenceau. Marshal Foch, Premier Orlando and 
Foreign Minister Sonnino arrive in London for 
conference wtih British leaders ; Mauretania ar- 
rives at New York with more than 4.000 return- 
inir American soldiers. 

Dec. 2 — President Wilson delivers annual message 
to congress and tells of his decision to go to peace 
conference; allies delay action on kaiser until 
American delegates arrive ; preliminary confer- 
ence in London. 

Dec. 3- President Wilson and party leave Washing- 
ton late at night for New York. 

Dec. 4 — American peace delegation headed by Presi- 
dent Wilson sail on the George Washington for 
Fiance. 

Dec. 5 — Premier Clemenceau on return from Lon- 
don conference says there is complete agreement 
between the allies. 

Dec. 6- Belgian troops occup Dusseldorff, Germany. 

D ec . 7— German soldiers stand by Ebert govern- 
ment ; British to demand $40,000,000,000 indem- 
nity from Germany. 



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Aisne, battle of. began— Sept. 14. 1914. 
Aisne caverns, battle of — Oct. 23, 1917. 
Allcnstein. battle of— Sept. 1. 1914. 
Ancre. ba'.tle of. began — Nov. 13. 1916. 



-Oct. 9-10, 191 1. 



1915. 
1917. 

25. 
Oc 



1917 : 
'.. 25, 



Antwerp, capture of, by Germans 
\ gesu, 1 attle of— Dec. 3. 1916. 
Arras, battle of, began—April 9. 1917. 
Artois. righting in the— Sept. 26-Oct. 2. 
ITagdad captured by British — March 11, 
Eainsiz7,a plateau taken by Italians, Aug. 

recaptured by Austrians and Germans, 

1917. 
Tapaume captured by British- March 17. 1917 ; lost 

to Germans March 24. 1918; recaptured by British 

Aug. 29, 1918. 
Beersheba captured by British— Oct. 31, 1917. 
I :< I i .m! inn, ,1 lis Aus: i i, nt.. It',- 2, 1914 ; re 

captured by Serbians. Dec. 14. 1915 ; taken by 

Germans and Austrians, Oct. 9-10, 1916. 
Belloy en Srnterre, battle of— July 4, 1916. 
Brcst-Litovsk captured by Germans — Aug. 25, 1915. 
Bruges occupied fcy Germans— Oct. 14, 1914. 
Brussels occupied by Germans — Aug. 20, 1914. 



Bui harest captured by Germans — Dec. 6, 1916. 

Bulls-court taken by Australians— May 12, 1917. 

Cambrai. battle of- Nov. 21. 1917: Oct. 9. 1918. 

Caporetto, battle of— Oct. 24. 1917. 

Carso plateau, battle of— May 23,24. 1917. 

Cetinje captured by Austrians — Jan. 12, 1916. 

Champagne, battle of the — Sept. 25-30. 1915. 

Chateau Thierry, battle of— July 15. 1918. 

Corcelette captured by British -Sept. 15, 1916. 

Cornbks captured by French and British Sept, 26, 
1916. 

Constanza captured by Germans- Oct. 23, 1916. 

Craonne. battle of— Jan. 25.27. 1915 : village re- 
captured by French, May 4. 1917. 

Ctespkon captured by British March 8. 1917. 

Czernowitz captured by Russians — June 18, 1916. 

Dardanelles campaign begun- Nov. 3. 1914; ended 
Jan. 9. 1916. 

Dardanelles forts, bombardment of. begun — Feb. 19, 
1913. 

Dogger bank British naval victory- Jan. 24. 1915. 

Douaumont fort, capture by Germans- Feb. 26. 
1916; recaptured by French. Oct. 21, 1916. 



One Hundred Ninety-five 



26. 1916. 



1914. 



Dubno captured by Russians— June 11, 191B. 

Dunajec, battle of the- May 1. 1915. 

Erzerum captured by Russians— Feb. 15, 1916. 

Erzingan captured by Russians— July 25, 1916. 

Falkland islands, naval battle of -Dec. 8, 1914. 

Festubert, battle of— May 16-17, 1915. 

Flers captured by British— Sept. 15, 1916. 

Fleury, battles of—July 11-Auk. 17. 1916. 

Fiorina taken by Serbs— Auk. 18, 1916. 

Fresnoy captured by Canadians— May 3, 1917. 

Gallipoli, allies land at April 22. 1915, evacuated 
by British Jan. 9. 1916. 

Gaza, battle of— March 26-27, 1917. 

Geudecourt captured by British— Sept. 

Gheluvelt, battle of Oct. 31, 1911. 

Ghent captured by Germans Oct. 12. 
. . hy, battle of Dec. 19-21. 1911. 

Goritz captured bj Italians -Auk. 9. 1916; recap- 
tin-. 1 by Austro- Germans, Oct. 28. 1917. 

Grandcourt captured by British- Feb. 7. 1917. 

Guillcmont captured by allies Sept. 3, 1916. 

Helgoland, naval battle of— Aug. 28, 1911. 
ns adt, I ittle oi Si pt. 30. 1916. 

Hill 7H (near Lens) captured Auk. 15. 1917. 

Hindenburg retreat began Aug. 15. 1917. 

Hooge. battle of- Auk. 3-9, 191.",. 

Huloch, battle of- Sept. 25-Oct. 2. 1915. 

Jaffa captured by British Nov. 18, 1917. 

Jericho captured Feb. 21. 1918. 

Jerusalem captured by British— Dec. 9, 1917. 

Jutland, naval battle of (Skager-Rak) -May 31. 
1916. 

Kemmel hill taken by Germans- April 26. 1918. 

Kitchener, Lord, lost at sea — June 5, 1916. 

Kovno captured by Germans Auk. 17. 1915. 

Kronstadt captured by Roumanians Auk. 30, 1916; 
recaptured by Germans. Oct. 8. 1916. 

Kut-el-Amara, surrender of British force at— April 
29, 191.;; recapture. 1. I'M.. 22-26. 1917. 

1 a 1 assee. battle of— Jan. 25-28, 1915. 

I.e Cateau, battle of— Aug. 26. 1911; Oct. 19. 1918. 

Lemberg taken by Russians Sapt. 2. 1914; recap- 
tured by Germans. June 22, 1915. 

Les Bceufs captured by British— Sept. 25. 1916. 

Lil.au occupied by Germans- May 8. 1915 

Liege captured by Germans— Auk. 5-8. 1911. 

Longueval taken by British- July 14, 1916. 

I os, battle .. Sc pt. 25 to Oct. 8. 1915. 

Louvain burned— Auk. 26. 1911. 

Lublin captured by Germans July 31, 1915. 

Marne. battle of- Sept. 6-11; second battle of. July 
15. 191 s. 

Martinpuich captured by British - Sept. 15. 1916. 

Maubeuge captured by Germans Sept. 7. 1914. 

Maurepas captured by French— Aug. 24, 1916. 

Ms-nni road, battle of Oct. 1, 1917. 

Messiners ridge taken by British June 7. 1917. 

Meuse-Argonne, battle of Sept. 26. Oct. 4 and Nov. 

1. 1918. 

Monastir captured by Bulgarians— Dec. 2. 1915: hy 

allies, Nov. 19. 1916. 
Monrhy le Preux, battle of April 23.25. 1917. 
Monfalcone occupied by Italians June 
Mons. battle of Auk. 21-23, 1911. 



191.-,. 



Monte Santo taken by Italians— Auk. 24, 1917; re- 
captured by Austrians and Germans, Oct. 28: 

1917. 
Morval captured by British — Sept. 25, 1916. 
Neuve Chapelie. battle of -March 10-12. 1916. 
Nish captured by Bulgarians — Nov. 5, 1915. 
Novo Georgievsk captured by Germans — Aug. 19. 

19ir,. 

Orsova captured by Germans — Nov. 24, 1916. 

Ostend occupied by Germans — Oct. 15, 1914. 

Peronne captured by allies — March 18. 1917 ; lost 
March 24. 1918; recaptured, Sept. 1. 1918. 

Piave, battles of— June 23 and Oct. 28. 1918. 

Pozieres captured by British — Aug. 9, 1916. 

Pisvend captured by BulKarians — Nov. 30. 1915. 

Przcmysl, siege and capture of by Russians — Sept. 
20. 1914, to March 22, 1915; recaptured by Ger- 
mans, June 3. 1915. 

Rancourl captured by French — Sept. 25, 1916. 

Rein-s Oct. 2 ! . 1918. 

Richebourg, battle of May 9-21. 1915. 

Sailly-Saillisel taken by French- Oct. 18. 1916. 

St. Eloy. battle of— Dec. 9. 1911. 

SI. Juvin, battle of -Oct. 1 1. 1918. 

St. Mihiel, ba'.tle of- Sept. 12, 1918. 

Saloniki, allies land at— Oct. 5. 1915. 

Scutari captured by Austrians — Jan. 23. 1916. 

Serl la. invansion of, begun— Oct. 7. 1915. 

Silistria captured by Germans- Sept. 10, 1916. 

Skager-Ral . naval battle of— May 31, 1916. 

Soissons, first battl ' s, pt. 15. 1914: ssco-ul bat- 
tle of, Jan. 8-12. 1915; lost by French, May 29. 
1918: recaptured by French, Auk. 2, 1918. 

Somme. battle of. began— July 1. 1916. 

Stanislau captured by Russians— Auk. 11. 1916. 

Suez canal, battle near— Feb. 2, 1915. 

TennenbeiK. battle of— Auk. 26. 1911. 

Tarnopol, battle of— Sept. 8. 1915. 

Termonde destroyed— Sept. 18, 1911. 

Thiepval captured by British— Sept. 26. 1916. 

Tolmina occupied by Italians July 3, 1915. 

Torcy. battle ..I' July 18. 1918. 

Trtl i ..n.l captured by Russians— April 17. 1916. 

Trentino, Austrian offensive in — May 15-June 6. 
1916. 

Tsingtao captured by Japanese — Nov. 7, 1914. 

Turnu-Severin captured by Germans — Nov. 24. 1916. 

Tutrakan captured by Germans —Sept. 7. 1916. 

Udine captured by Austrians and Germans — Oct. 30. 
1917. 

Uskup captured by BulKarians — Oct. 24, 1915. 

Vai.x. 1 attle of- July 1. 1918. 

Vac:, port, recaptured by French — Nov. 3, 1916. 

Verdun, German attacks on, beKan— Feb. 22, 1916. 

Vermandovillers taken by French- Sept. 17. 1916. 

Vilna captured by Germans — Sept. 18. 1915. 

v:rv ridge captured by Canadians — April 9, 1917. 

Wa saw car. tared by Germans — Auk. 4. 1915. 

Wytscha • ca] i - tl by British — June 7. 1917. 

Ypres. li st battle of Oct. 20 31. 1914: second bat- 
tle of. April 22-24, 1915; third battle of. July 30 
:.:..■. 1. 1! 17. 

Zeebrugge, and Ostend blocked by British— April 22 
ana May 9. I 1 . 18. 



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